Making rifle barrels that will shoot true and straight requires mathematical exactness. These expert workmen in an American factory that is turning out rifles and cartridges for our fighting men are making these rifle barrels accurately straight...
These paper barrel covers are used here in an eastern chemical plant to keep materials clean and dry during temporary storage or during transport from point to point within the plant. They are made of no ordinary paper however; barrels are often...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Dyeing; Plastics industry; Nylon; Firearms;
Table of Contents: Reds that stay red; The laboratory that salt built; Speed will get you nowhere; The things they do with a glass-reinforced plastic; Polka dot paint; I enjoyed your commercials; The metal that slept for a hundred years; The profs...
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Francis Breuil's contract to purchase 400 barrels of powder from the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Breuil likely made this purchase on behalf of the Minister to Spain. See Life of E. I., Volume 7, pages 155 and 221. Contract is in...
Bill of Lading for 3117 barrels of gunpowder to be shipped aboard the vessel "C. H. Rodgers," Captain John Langley, bound for New York. This powder was shipped to Grinnell, Minturn and Company of New York. This was the first powder shipped out...
DuPont mentions the sale of 1,000 barrels of gunpowder to Grinnell, Minturn and Company. This was part of the negotiations surrounding Grinnell, Minturn and Company's first order with DuPont.
DuPont discusses the first gunpowder shipment to Grinnell, Minturn and Company and possible discrepancies between the number of barrels listed on the bill of lading and the actual number shipped.
Hexamethylenetetramine, commonly called hexamine, being loaded into barrels for shipment at the Perth Amboy, NJ plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. Hexamine is an important ingredient in thermosetting resins.
