The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: What happened to business and why; Two new creations in Pyralin toiletware; A wonderful product is Fibersilk; Carnotite, a radium bearing ore; New du Pont product gives mines better lungs; Pyralin in the nation's workshops; Now...
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...
Careful inspection is given every pirn or shipping bobbin of textile nylon yarn before it is wrapped and packaged. The inspector is one of a large group that makes sure every package is in proper condition for the manufacturer when it leaves the...
Careful inspection is given every pirn or shipping bobbin of textile nylon yarn before it is wrapped and packaged. The inspector is one of a large group that makes sure every package is in proper condition for the manufacturer when it leaves the...
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.
A 100 foot control room at DuPont's Belle Works, near Charleston, West Virginia, enables operators to handle production equipment of nylon intermediate from central location. The product must be processed under speeds, temperatures, pressures and...
Air conditioned control room of one of the processes for making nylon intermediates at DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas. The dials tell operator what is going on inside the tanks and distillation towers elsewhere in the plant. These...
At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....
Good paint bristles must be tapered, tough and resilient. These new tapered nylon paint brush bristles in the bundles are superior replacements for long, lithe pig bristles from China and Russia. The first satisfactory tapered bristle ever made by...
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...
Lycra spandex yarn, a product of DuPont research, is put through a creeling operation in plant at Waynesboro, Virginia as part of a testing procedure to determine if the yarn will run satisfactorily on the types of equipment used by DuPont...
Lycra spandex fiber in production at the DuPont Company's plant in Waynesboro, Virginia undergoes a double check before shipping, Inspectress in background certifies yarn for shipping, wraps it in cellophane and racks it on shipping buggy. The...
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...
Molten polymer enters one end of this 300 foot long casting and stretching machine and emerges as a continuous sheet of Cronar polyester film base for medical x-ray film at DuPont's new Brevard, North Carolina plant. On its way through, the film...
An operator adjusts the flow of molten liquid polymer as it is extruded through a lost into a rotating casting wheel. On its way through, the film base is stretched longitudinally and laterally to about 10 times its original size, inspected and...
A control panel in the viscose manufacturing operation at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Precise control at every stage of the process is essential to uniformity and high quality of the finished product. In the manufacture...
One of the instrument panels at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which permits precise control of every step of the manufacture process of viscose, a syrupy liquid which is then converted in the casting process into clear,...
Progress continues after product is on the market. Moisture proof cellophane was developed three years after DuPont had plain film. Today there are more than 50 types and 5,000 uses for sheets like that inspected in Buffalo research laboratory by...
