Written on back: "Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water."...
Highly ingenious laboratory tools and instruments help DuPont scientists uncover many secrets of nature ordinarily hidden from the human senses. This 'Breath meter' is so sensitive that mere blowing on the steel bar can easily be registered. This...
A chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station. When cooled with liquid air, many gases are converted to liquids which are then distilled in this low temperature still, like water or other ordinary liquids.
This journal details Elizabeth Webb’s and Mary Roger's first visit to America, which lasted from November 1697 to May 1699. They landed in Virginia and traveled overland, visiting the important Quaker meetings along the way. The journal includes...
This journal details Elizabeth Webb’s and Mary Roger's first visit to America, which lasted from November 1697 to May 1699. They landed in Virginia and traveled overland, visiting the important Quaker meetings along the way. The journal includes...
Motors on gravity roll conveyors, of many types and sizes, awaiting production processes in New Industrial Motor Division of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company at East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
One of the DuPont Company's major contributions to the finishes industry was the invention of 'Duco' lacquer. Its quick drying characteristic revolutionized the painting of automobile bodies by reducing the required time from many days to a few...
Handbill promoting candidate William Cannon of the Union Party for Governor of Delaware. Cannon won the election and served from 20 January 1863 until 1 March 1865, when he died in office. Many Delaware politicians disliked Cannon because of his...
Spread out in the foreground of this aerial view is DuPont’s Chesnut Run Research center. Eight operating departments of the company now have sales services laboratories at his location. The laboratories are staffed with more than 1,700...
Dye Works-Chambers Works, Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...
The DuPont site at Old Hickory, Tennessee reflects the complexity of the many new products now being made on this location replacing rayon and cellophane which were once manufactured here. The aerial view show the new plants for Corfam poromeric...
Insecticides packed in handy pressurized aerosol containers get the bug killing chemical into hard to reach crevices and corners, making insect control around the home a lot easier and less messy. A variety of formulations is available for...
Air freight handled by the 16 scheduled trunk airlines during the first six months of this year was up an estimated 156 percent over the same period in 1947, a total of 30,723,010 freight ton miles as compared with 11,984,214. This trailer-truck,...
Many sections of the DuPont Company's nylon yarn plants at Seaford, Delaware; Martinsville, Virginia and Chattanooga, Tennessee are air conditioned. Photo shows the huge vents that keep fresh, clean air in one of the textile areas where nylon yarn...
Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882). Born in Connecticut, Alexamder Holley became a mechanical engineer of remarkable ability. Energetic, persistent, and inventive, he sought convenient means of doing work. He improved many kinds of machinery, but...
Speed that splinters seconds into millionths is essential elements in tools used in chemical research. Here an ordinary egg, exploded by a bullet, is frozen in space by a high speed camera. The electronic camera which caught this dramatic picture...
Sulfuric acid plants: Cleveland, OH; East Chicago, IN; Fort Hill, Cincinnati, OH; James River, Richmond, VA; Fort Bend, KY
Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
