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...
Although Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified...
Resurfacing material is made by mixing neoprene latex with a special kind of water setting cement and an aggregate of finely crushed stone. Man with brush is applying a prime coat of neoprene latex to secure a tight bond to the old concrete....
Sigmund Gestetner (left) and Raymond Loewy (right). Loewy received his first significant product design commission from Gestetner, who was seeking to modernize the look of his mimeograph machine.
Shape wire specimens in cross section
Text on photo: "Shape wire has countless uses including the making of small machine parts. Cold drawn in long lengths by American Steel & Wire Company. Collection numbers 785 pieces – no duplicates. ...
Caption: "Banks of these screens rise, tier on tier, throughout the world's largest anthracite breaker. More than 12,000 square feet assure the accurate sizing of the product."
A stream of solid dust free DFF Solozone sodium peroxide pouring from the furnace in which sodium monoxide has been converted to sodium peroxide by treatment with oxygen, Sodium peroxide is another product made from sodium a the Niagara Falls plant...
Easy way to assure that your dry fly will float realistically on the water to attract the big ones is to use this handy aerosol product. Its fine spray imparts a long lasting, water resistant coating to the lure.
Storage hoppers containing nylon flake about to be transformed into yarn at the DuPont spinning pants in Seaford, Delaware. Insures adequate mixing and a uniform product.
Storage hoppers containing nylon flake about to be transformed into yarn at the DuPont spinning pants in Seaford, Delaware. Insures adequate mixing and a uniform product.
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...
Each of these 1100 bobbins represents a different item in the nylon product line made by the DuPont Company. Each differs in denier, size, twist, brightness, number of filaments or in some other factor. DuPont makes these infinite varieties to...
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
Small scale plants called 'semi-works' like this one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station are vital tools in scaling new processes from test tube to full plant size. The semi-works is a standard step in research to prove out laboratory...
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.
