Research for pleasing perfumes at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The head of the laboratory, shown the picture, is comparing perfume odors.
Samples of rayon yarn being given tests for elasticity tensile strength and elongation at the rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company near Richmond, Virginia
Standard spray testing equipment used to determine the water repellency of a Zelan treated fabric versus an untreated fabric in the DuPont Technical Laboratory, Fine Chemicals Division, Deepwater, New Jersey.
Crystallized new mown hay-coumarin crystals. This odor synthetically compounded adds a sweet note to many perfumes. Shown here in concentrated form, it occurs naturally in several plants and traces of it present in hay impart to it the peculiar...
About two dozen constituents, besides terpineol, combine to make synthetic lilac perfume. Mr. Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, is shown at the scales of his laboratory...
Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Final inspection of bundles of bristles used in the manufacture of toothbrushes at the Leominster Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. Imperfect bristles are being removed.
Maneuvering with military precision, this ingenious machine drills the holes in the handles of the toothbrushes inserts the bristles and anchors them securely in a continuous automatic operation. This is a scene in the Leominster, Massachusetts...
Nylon filament to be used as sutures or fishing leaders is shown in this photograph being wound upon spool preparatory to shipment. Photograph taken at the Arlington, N.J. plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
In this photograph the operator is shown tying nylon hanks in preparation for cutting the filament into short bristle length, bundles of which are later fed into automatic machines for bristling tooth and hair brushes. Photograph taken at the...
Nylon filaments to be used as sutures or fishing leader is shown in this photograph being wound upon spools preparatory to shipment. Photograph take at the Arlington, New Jersey plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
