DuPont Company 150th anniversary observance, July 18, 1952 at site of first powder mills on the Brandywine. Crawford H. Greenwalt, president, addressing company employees, du Pont family members and other guests.
DuPont Company 150th anniversary observance, July 18, 1952 at site of first powder mills on the Brandywine. Crawford H. Greenwalt, president, addressing company employees, du Pont family members and other guests.
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.
DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
Caption: "This piece of Treading Anthracite weighs more than a ton. An inspector of the Philadelphia Reading Coal and Iron Company found that it contained no particles of rock or other impurities."
Holland, land of water, is a strange place, but the strangest thing seen so far, is their auction rooms. A double platform, with a canal between, contains the buyers on one side, and the auctioneer on the other. Boatloads of produce are drawn...
Titanium dioxide, the whitest white pigment know, is bagged for shipment from DuPont's pigments plant at New Johnsonville, Tennessee. The plant has capacity of 125 tons of titanium dioxide a day. The pigment is widely used in the manufacture of...
DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
Text from back of image: "The aerial hobo has appeared as a deluxe counterpart of his earthly contemporaries. In fact he is none other than a distinguished officer of the U.S. Army air service - Lieut. Frank E. Benedict who has departed from Clover...
An aerial view of the Elastomers Chemicals Department plant at Beaumont, Texas. Here the DuPont Company makes methionine, an amino acid used a s poultry feed supplement. The value of a ton of good feed to a broiler grower can be increased $7 to $10...
Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at...
Neoprene is manufactured around the clock in this DuPont plant at Louisville, Kentucky. The company sells the crude neoprene to rubber product manufacturers who combine it with other ingredients to make a variety of finished goods. When DuPont...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Plants- Chicago, Everett, Flint, Fort Madison, Parlin, Philadelphia, South San Francisco
The South San Francisco plant of the DuPont Company as seen from the air. Here the Fabrics & Finishes Department makes paints, enamels and other finishes for household, industrial, automotive and automotive refinish use.
Woolens and other moth attractive garments are easily and effectively protected against damage when you use one the self spraying moth proofer aerosols. The fine spray reaches into the folds of the cloth with a minimum of mess and bother....
An art nouveau promotional album for the biscuit company Lefèvre-Utile on the occasion of the awarding of a grand prize at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the first to a French biscuit company. Each page is of heavy gray art paper with...
