The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Hendrick writes that he was never able to get the kerosene oil burners to work, even after 'several trials.' Hendrick want to return the burners and have the company make 'whatever allowance you think is fair between man and man.'
Handwritten on back: "General Motors Corp. incorporation with Fisher Body Corp. Cleveland, home of Fred Fisher. Wm. Fisher, at right, with unidentified man."
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Weeds; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Mobile home living;
Table of Contents: New weapons in the war on weeds; This fabrilite breathes; They take their homes with them; Outboard without roar; Paper from man-made fibers; Ever hear of fiberfill; The right light for the job; Why high compression car engines;...
Suspicion of man in Delaware that is not strongly aligned with the Union, the men write du Pont to block request for arms by the company of which a Mr. Knight is leading
Letter from Margaretta Elizabeth du Pont, Lammot's mother, stating that the grandparents of a man named Peoples (a member of Company B) have been pleading with her to get Lammot to let Peoples come home.
No matter what precarious position or circumstances Uncle Sams fighting men get themselves in to, it will be next to impossible for the men to lose their identities. The army has looked after that and every man is provided with a positive means of...
Modern research takes time, manpower and money. Tools take a large share of the investment. The Semi-works unit shown here illustrates the complex, costly equipment needed in a modern industrial research laboratory. This reactor was a vital tool in...
Continuous roll of Corfam poromeric shoe material is inspected at DuPont's pilot plant for the man made upper material in Newburg, New York. A full scale plant is being built by the chemical company at Old Hickory, Tennessee and commercial...
The Barotor, developed by DuPont research and produced commercially under license by manufacturers of dyeing equipment for rapid dyeing of large yardages of fabric under pressure, is typical of accomplishments of DuPont's $6 million Textile...
The lonely figure in the picture above has just completed a job. He is the last man of an army of more than 37,000 men and women who manned the seven explosives plants DuPont operated for the government during the war and of many additional...
Hendrick writes that he cannot make any fire with kerosene that amounts to anything with the boiler that Taunton sent. He asks if the company will send a man with experience enough to operate the burner and make it produce 10 horsepower of steam as...
