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Title: New soap perfumes
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: New soap perfumes in the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other...
Show moreNew soap perfumes in the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other elements. The development of synthetic components for perfumes has been of major importance in the soap and cosmetic industries, where perfume are use in some cases to cover up the bad odor of fats, in other to give a pleasing smell. Every cosmetic and soap on the market is perfumed-even the cheapest type of laundry soap. Problems of price and supply are being solved by the chemist and moreover there has been a development of synthetic perfumes, useful in this field, superior to anything made by nature.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0643
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mound City Explosives Department at Potomac River Works
Date(s): 1954-03
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0820
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Julian Hill recreating synthesis of first completely synthetic fiber
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled molten sample of material from a laboratory test tube at the company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. The molasses-like mass stuck to the glass stirring rod and was drawn out into a thin fiber.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1154
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Explosives Department at Repauno Works at Gibbstown, New Jersey
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0842
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: A titanium ingot being drawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Titanium metal can be worked by standard equipment. Here a hot titanium ingot is being withdrawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3363
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station and Hagley Museum and Library
Date(s): 1957-12-17
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4484
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Fifty pound bags of Delrin acetal resin
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Delrin acetal resin 50 pound bags ready for shipment to customers from DuPont's Washington Works at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Commercial development of Delrin in January, 1960 followed 12 years of research and development and the expenditure of $50 million by DuPont/.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2402
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mountain water unit at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Water flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the...
Show moreWater flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the main raw materials used at Belle. Air and water are two others. Ammonia and the alcohols are in turn the raw materials for a wide variety of products made at belle and by other industrial producers. These include nylon intermediates from which nylon for textiles and plastics are produced; urea, for fertilizers, cattle feeds, medicinals, adhesives and plastics; nitric acid ; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; methyl methacrylates for Lucite acrylic resin plastics; Mycoban mold inhibitor; and many others.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0476
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Cutting machine and pneumatic equipment for handling cut staple for rayon
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Cutting machine and pneumatic equipment for handling cut staple in the manufacture of Acele acetate rayon staple at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1081
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer ready to go into the dryers
Date(s): 1938-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2415
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Original plant site before construction of Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1925-12-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of original plant site taken from mountain side (just below-const. of present main office) before any construction work was started. Buildings in picture are old Charleston Chemical Company buildings.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0360B
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Rochester, New York Plant
Date(s): 1964-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1611
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Groundbreaking for new Camden, South Carolina, plant
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Lisa Robineau & Wesley Adams (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1429
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Cellophane machine at DuPont Exhibition at the New York Museum of Science & Industry
Date(s): 1937-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Miniature machine demonstrating how Cellophane cellulose film is made, a feature of the former DuPont Exhibition as it appeared at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center New York City. The spruce wood, after being ground and dissolved to form viscose, went through the various chemical baths and came out in the form of Cellophane sheets.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0053
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Bauxite on its way to the grinding mill for pulverization at the Grasselli plant
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Bauxite as it comes from the mines, which is used in the manufacture of commercial alumina sulfate (Alum), on its way to the grinding mill for pulverization at the Grasselli plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company in Philadelphia PA.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0471
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Battery of coke ovens at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Battery of coke ovens used at the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0365
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Camphor plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1937-02
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0524
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon tow rope
Date(s): 1948-06-17
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever manufactured by Plymouth Cordage Company, Plymouth, Massachusetts and has breaking point strength of more than 105,000 pounds, comparing favorably with larger manila hawsers. It weighs over a ton, and contains enough nylon to make over 74,000 pairs...
Show moreMore than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever manufactured by Plymouth Cordage Company, Plymouth, Massachusetts and has breaking point strength of more than 105,000 pounds, comparing favorably with larger manila hawsers. It weighs over a ton, and contains enough nylon to make over 74,000 pairs of stockings. Special factory conditioning represented several months of use at sea. The hawser is re-reeled at the factory, after a special process conditioned the line to an equivalent of several months at sea.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1397
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Everett plant of the DuPont Company
Date(s): 1950-08
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2791
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing the strength of TD nickel
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A graphic demonstration of the high temperature strength of TD nickel, DuPont's new alloy of 98% nickel and 2% thorium. The TD nickel bar reaches red heat, but does not fail at 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit under a load of 6,000 pounds per square inch. The best super alloys now used in high temperature service failed under similar test conditions at DuPont's Metal Center in Baltimore.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3359
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont Exhibit at the National Packaging Exposition
Date(s): 1949-05-10
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: One of the most interesting developments in packaging came recently in the rubber industry. Measured amounts of magnesia and carbon black are now bagged in polythene film and added to the mix without removing the bag. The operation is dust free, making working conditions cleaner and safeguarding worker health. The bags were shown at the DuPont Company exhibit at the National Packaging Exposition.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1722
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Product display at 1950 Packaging Show
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0083
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Bristles and brush samples
Date(s): 1938-10-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1330
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Everett plant of the DuPont Company
Date(s): 1950-08
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2790
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont Finance Committee
Date(s): 1956
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: P20100318_019
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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