Zerex' anti-rust anti-freeze of the premium type is made by the DuPont Company at Belle, West Virginia. 'Zerex' is a product of DuPont research and the company also pioneered sealed, tamper-proof cans for protection of anti-freeze buyers.
Zerex' anti-rust anti-freeze being canned at DuPont's Belle Works. 'Zerex' which prevents freezing and inhibits rust in car radiators, is a result of DuPont anti-freeze research program started in 1930. This product and the company's 'Zerone'...
This test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline is only one of many tests run regularly by DuPont as part of its research to solve fuel and lubricant problems at the Petroleum Laboratory, Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Results of...
This physical research chemist at DuPont's Experimental Station is using an analog computer to determine temperature characteristics of a bar of silicon undergoing refinement by the floating zone technique which involves gradual moving of the...
This photograph illustrates the wide variety of training and skill necessary to carry out research efficiently on the large scale on which it is conducted at DuPont's Experimental Station. Many specialists, in addition to research chemists,...
This photograph demonstrates the exceedingly fine particle size of Ludox colloidal silica, a new product of the DuPont Company. This picture was taken with an electron microscope. The magnification is 25,000 diameters. This high magnification was...
This is not the engine room of a big ocean liner but part of the complex high pressure equipment used to force nitrogen into chemical union with hydrogen in manufacturing ammonia t the Belle WV Works of the DuPont Company. Sometimes pressure as...
This is dry neoprene, the form in which part of the product made at DuPont's Louisville works I shipped, Neoprene first sold for $1 a pound; now, as a result of continual research and process improvements, price is down to 39 cents.
This experimental small car was designed for General Motors Research Laboratories in 1925 by Fabio Sergardi (at wheel). It was considered as a possible product for export but was never put into production.
This complicated array of pipes, stills, tanks and steel structure is a portion of the Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol plant of the DuPont Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall s NY. Some idea is gained of the intricate equipment required for the...
The Wawa, Inc. Public Relations files consists primarily of financial and operations records,
advertising materials, Wawa product packaging, company newsletters, and press clippings.
Although these files do not provide a detailed picture of...
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become the...
The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio is an intricate maze of pipe and equipment. A product of the company's research program, Mylar has an unusual combination of...
The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for manufacturing Mylar polyester film at Florence, South Carolina operates 24 hours a day to product the polymer from which the film is made.
Text from back of image: 'Here are shown Little Shirley Tripken (right) and Adelaide Martins, daughter of Dr. E. Pinto Martins, assistant pilot and navigator of the Sampai o Correia, who in the presence of New York City and State officials,...
Ten to fifteen percent of carbon black output of this plant of the Cabot Carbon Company goes up in the smoke from the stack at left, while filter bags made of DuPont's Orlon acrylic fiber installed in stack at right recovers 100% of the costly...
Taking a sample of dope-the material from which the film base is made- from large stainless steel mixing tank. Dope is the product resulting from mixing the cellulose acetate and suitable solvents, This sample will be sent to the laboratory to...
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