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- Title
- Original members of the nylon development team
- Date(s)
- 1946-09-17
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The development of nylon came through the combined efforts of a team of scientists headed by the late Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers. Seven members of the original group associated with this development attended the dedication of The Carothers Research Laboratory at the Experimental Station of E.I. DuPont Nemours & Company near Wilmington, Delaware on September 17, 1946. From left to right: Dr. J.W. Hill, Dr. H.B. Dykstra, Dr. G.J. Berchet, Dr. J.E. Kirby, Dr. E.W. Spanagel, Dr. D.D. Coffman, and...
Show moreThe development of nylon came through the combined efforts of a team of scientists headed by the late Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers. Seven members of the original group associated with this development attended the dedication of The Carothers Research Laboratory at the Experimental Station of E.I. DuPont Nemours & Company near Wilmington, Delaware on September 17, 1946. From left to right: Dr. J.W. Hill, Dr. H.B. Dykstra, Dr. G.J. Berchet, Dr. J.E. Kirby, Dr. E.W. Spanagel, Dr. D.D. Coffman, and Dr. F.J. Van Natta.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- P20100319_009
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Interview with Gerard Bérchet, 1 August 1978 [audio]
- Date(s)
- 1978-08-01
- Description
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Gerard Bérchet talks about Wallace Carothers with Cookie Strange. He discusses Nylon and its various versions, including 66 and 6, 10, as well as other projects that he and Carothers were involved with at DuPont's Experimental Station.
- Collection ID
- Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers (Accession 1994.311)
- Hagley ID
- AUD_1994311_B01_ID05
- Collection
- Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers
- Title
- Interview with Crawford Greenewalt [transcript]
- Date(s)
- 1978
- Description
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Transcript of a conversation about Wallace Carothers between Crawford Greenewalt and Cookie Strange. Greenewalt discusses Carothers's personality, professional successes, depression, and marriage to Helen Sweetman. He also mentions Carother's affair with "The Dame" Silvia Moore.
- Collection ID
- Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
- Hagley ID
- MSS_1985_01_01_06
- Collection
- Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers
- Title
- DuPont Experimental Station
- Date(s)
- 1912
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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DuPont Experimental Station, established in 1903, occupies site in rolling country near Wilmington, Delaware. By 1912, when this picture was taken, it included several buildings. Some of them were refurbished powder mills on the banks of the Brandywine. At this time, the entire personnel of the station was less than 70.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
- Hagley ID
- AVD_2004268_P00001024
- Collection
- DuPont Company External Affairs Department photographs
- Title
- Interview with Martin E. Cupery and Harry B. Dykstra, 2 August 1978 [transcript]
- Date(s)
- 1978-08-02
- Description
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Martin E. Cupery and Harry B. Dykstra have a conversation with Cookie Strange. They discuss their research with super polymers, the discovery of Nylon, and the DuPont Experimental Station. They also talk about Wallace Carothers's overall demeanor and how his gentleness and kindness made him easy to be around.
- Collection ID
- Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
- Hagley ID
- MSS_1985_01_01_03
- Collection
- Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers
- Title
- Nylon casting wheel at the DuPont Experimental Station
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Still busily rolling out nylon is this casting wheel, part of the original equipment constructed in 1937 to make some of the first nylon. Although two large yarn plants have since gone into operation, this original wheel (made over from an engine flywheel) is still producing nylon at the DuPont Experimental Station at Wilmington, Delaware. Extruded in molten form onto the wheel, a segment of which is seen at the left, the nylon solidifies into a plastic ribbon and is then carried up over the...
Show moreStill busily rolling out nylon is this casting wheel, part of the original equipment constructed in 1937 to make some of the first nylon. Although two large yarn plants have since gone into operation, this original wheel (made over from an engine flywheel) is still producing nylon at the DuPont Experimental Station at Wilmington, Delaware. Extruded in molten form onto the wheel, a segment of which is seen at the left, the nylon solidifies into a plastic ribbon and is then carried up over the small take-off wheel and between air jets in the blower offer, which dry it. The ribbon is then chopped into flake, which is in turn spun into yarn.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1158
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Research chemist conducting explosives research
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 (photographer)
- Description
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At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station, Wilmington Delaware, this Explosives Department research chemist uses high vacuum, glass equipment in a study that may lead to a new chemical compound or a new and better way of making a known compound. The work is part of the department's fundamental research program aimed at the discovery of new products outside the explosives field.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0663
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Drying treated samples of textiles
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Textile chemicals to make cotton and rayon resist creasing and mildew are aims of research by DuPont chemist shown here drying treated samples in this laboratory at the Experimental Station. Textile chemical research stems from early work on dyes.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_2647
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Test runs of experimental fabric fibers at Carothers Laboratory
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Test runs of new experimental fibers are made on this equipment at the Carothers Laboratory at the Experimental Station of the DuPont Company.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0914
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Testing tensile strength of fabrics
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The tensile strength of fabrics is tested on this modern version of a medieval torture tack. A swathe of fabric is secured in jaws of the machine which exerts a pulling pressure to tear it apart. Point at which it tears is recorded by dial at right.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0916
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - spun yarns
- 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
- PC20110714_0510
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - fibers in storage hopper
- 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
- PC20110714_0515
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Magazine rack at the Lavoisier Library
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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A corner of the magazine rack in the Lavoisier Library at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station shows just a portion of the hundreds of current technical journals available for reference. In addition, this library has more than 55,000 technical books.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_4405
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - spinning threads
- 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
- PC20110714_0503
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - shrinking the felt
- 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
- PC20110714_0512
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Main reading room of Lavoisier Library
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Main reading room of the Lavoisier Library. The library contains 55,000 volumes and bound journals, about 1,000 current technical publications and trade journals and some 600,000 patents.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_4404
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - weaving fibers
- 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
- PC20110714_0516
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Pigments Department research metallurgist
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 (photographer)
- Description
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A Pigments Department research metallurgist at DuPont's Experimental Station is manipulating a water cooled electrode which extends into a vacuum melting chamber. An electric arc between the electrode and the metal charge fuses the contents within the chamber and thus homogenizes the metal and any alloying ingredients incorporated in them.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_2950
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Testing fabrics with the Fade-Ometer
- Date(s)
- 1955
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Fade-Ometer simulates sunshine and determines the reaction of fabrics to strong light, ultraviolet ray, any other damaging effects.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0921
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - shrinking the felt
- 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
- PC20110714_0514
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - checking the threads
- 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
- PC20110714_0508
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - checking the threads
- 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
- PC20110714_0517
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - shrinking the felt
- 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
- PC20110714_0513
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - checking the threads
- 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
- PC20110714_0505
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Synthetic textiles - fluffed fibers
- 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
- PC20110714_0511
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection