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- Title
- Reading the scale at tetraethyl lead plant
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The scale on the floor below at the DuPont Company's tetraethyl lead plant is being read from the catwalk by means of a periscope. The scale shows the weight of the material going into the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an antiknock compound used in almost all the gasoline sold opt motorists throughout the world. DuPont also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. The fluid is manufactured at the Chambers Works and is markets by the Petroleum Chemicals Division. Another...
Show moreThe scale on the floor below at the DuPont Company's tetraethyl lead plant is being read from the catwalk by means of a periscope. The scale shows the weight of the material going into the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an antiknock compound used in almost all the gasoline sold opt motorists throughout the world. DuPont also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. The fluid is manufactured at the Chambers Works and is markets by the Petroleum Chemicals Division. Another plant located at Antioch, California manufactures tetraethyl lead for the West Coat market.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3684
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. The plant employs approximately 6,000 people and produces some 2,500 specific chemical compounds. Among its chief chemical products are dyes and intermediates, textiles and rubber chemicals tetraethyl lead antiknock...
Show moreChambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. The plant employs approximately 6,000 people and produces some 2,500 specific chemical compounds. Among its chief chemical products are dyes and intermediates, textiles and rubber chemicals tetraethyl lead antiknock compound, petroleum chemicals 'Freon' fluorinated hydrocarbons and organic isocyanates.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3653
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Reading the scale at tetraethyl lead plant
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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An operator reads a scale as the finished tetraethyl lead antiknock compound is being pumped from the blender into the tank car outside the DuPont Company's Chambers Works. It is here and at a new plant in Antioch, California that DuPont's antiknock fluid, used in almost all the gasoline bought by motorists through the world, is manufactured. The company also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. Tetraethyl lead is marketed by DuPont's Petroleum Chemicals Division.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3683
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department
- Date(s)
- 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Plant employs approximately 6,000 people and manufactures dyestuffs, tetraethyl lead, fluorine compounds and other organic chemicals for the petroleum, textile , paper refrigeration and other industries.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3694
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Laboratory setup for organic kinetics study at DuPont's Petroleum Laboratory
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Fundamental chemical research is important in the development of petroleum additives. This complicated looking apparatus is used by DuPont in its laboratories at Deepwater Point, New Jersey for studying rates of organic chemical reactions. DuPont research, founded only 15 years later than our national government, has played a significant part in the country's industrial progress.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1974341_3670
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Tanks used for the storage of raw materials at camphor plant
- Date(s)
- 1941-03-20
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Tanks used for the storage of raw materials at the camphor plant of the DuPont Company. The building in the background is the tetraethyl lead plant.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3695
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Boiling off Freon at DuPont's Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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In addition to a moisture removal process, purity is a prime essential in the manufacture of Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants and represents 70% of the process. Here a chemical operator at the Organic Chemicals Department's Chambers Works checks for traces of impurities as he watches sample of the Freon boil off.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3456
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Cylinders of Freon at DuPont's Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Cylinders of Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants are filled under pressure to keep the gas liquefied at DuPont's Chambers Works. In this form, Freon is clear, water-white and virtually odorless.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3457
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Freon manufacturing building at Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3654
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Raw materials used in 'Freon' at DuPont's Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Raw materials used in 'Freon; fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants are basically simple-sulphur, carbon tetrachloride and flurspar. Here is a worker at Chambers Works standing behind samples of these basic materials. Freon hydrocarbons are also made at DuPont plants in East Chicago, Louisville and Antioch.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3454
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Knock testing engine used in fundamental combustion research by DuPont
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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This is a knock testing engine being used by DuPont for fundamental combustion research. Since its beginning in 1927, DuPont's fundamental research program has proved helpful in laying the foundation for applied research along many lines. In this research program, the Petroleum Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey is studying the effect of various fundamentals of fuel behavior.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1974341_3668
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Loading Freon onto rail cars
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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One ton drums of Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants are loaded on rail cars by hoist operated by a chemical worker at the DuPont Company's Chambers Works. Shipments are made in smaller steel cylinders for those customers who service household refrigerators.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3458_1
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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This test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline is only one of many tests run regularly by DuPont as part of its research to solve fuel and lubricant problems at the Petroleum Laboratory, Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Results of research are far reaching. Every improvement in quality means that purchasers receive a better product.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1974341_3671
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Testing motor fuels at DuPont's Petroleum Laboratory
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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In an effort to find out more about motor fuels, lubricant and engine performance, a test car is driven for miles on an instrumented treadmill under simulated road conditions at DuPont's Petroleum Laboratory. The treadmill can be tilted to any desired grade and a wide tunnel in the background simulates the windage on a moving car. In other tests, a fleet of cars and trucks are driven thousands of miles under actual road conditions.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1974341_3672
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Hydrocluoric acid units at Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3655
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Drying the Freon at DuPont's Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Drying is a key factor in Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants since there must be less than 10 drops of water per ton of gas. The equipment pictured above at the DuPont Company's Chambers Works removes moisture from the Freon.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3455
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Operator at DuPont Company's Chambers Works displaying aerosol bug bombs
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The growing variety of handy aerosol bombs is displayed by an operator at the DuPont Company's Chambers Works in Deepwater Point, New Jersey. This man helps to make the Freon fluorinated hydrocarbons that propel various sprays. The bug bomb was acclaimed as one of the most useful new weapons of the last war. Using as a propellant the same fluid that keeps refrigerators cold, the hand bombs efficiently sprayed insect killing chemicals. Now the bombs are used to spray shampoo, shoe polish,...
Show moreThe growing variety of handy aerosol bombs is displayed by an operator at the DuPont Company's Chambers Works in Deepwater Point, New Jersey. This man helps to make the Freon fluorinated hydrocarbons that propel various sprays. The bug bomb was acclaimed as one of the most useful new weapons of the last war. Using as a propellant the same fluid that keeps refrigerators cold, the hand bombs efficiently sprayed insect killing chemicals. Now the bombs are used to spray shampoo, shoe polish, paint and a host of other things in a veritable spray gun revolution.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1974341_3660
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Simplifying the job
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Planned work means easier work in home or plant. Methods engineers' studies of the job of Charley Chrustowski, DuPont Chambers Works inspector, eliminated 70% of the motions he used to employ in drum labeling. Stretching, turning and walking were involved in putting on sticker by unplanned methods. A labeling kit was designed and plant's drum storage system revised in simplifying the job.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3898
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Work planning
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The same kind of work planning which makes jobs easier in DuPont plants also reduces fatigue in DuPont households. Dave Gillon, of the company's Chambers Works, registered for the stroboscopic camera the motions he used in pounding a hoop around the barrel top with heavy hammer to put on a lid. In planning the job, a durable paper cover was developed which could be slipped over the top with marked savings in motion.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3897
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection