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Title: Interview with John and Elizabeth Miles, July 1978 [transcript]
Date(s): 1978
Description: A rough transcript of Cookie Strange's conversation with John and Elizabeth "Lib" Miles in July, 1978. The Miles' discuss Wallace Carothers, primarily focusing on his marriage to Helen Sweetman (1911-2000). Both John and Lib express their disapproval of Ms. Sweetman and believe the marriage was a mistake, recounting several stories to support their opinions. They talk about Carothers's general personality, including his love of drinking, music, and cheese, his insecurities, and his focus,...
Show moreA rough transcript of Cookie Strange's conversation with John and Elizabeth "Lib" Miles in July, 1978. The Miles' discuss Wallace Carothers, primarily focusing on his marriage to Helen Sweetman (1911-2000). Both John and Lib express their disapproval of Ms. Sweetman and believe the marriage was a mistake, recounting several stories to support their opinions. They talk about Carothers's general personality, including his love of drinking, music, and cheese, his insecurities, and his focus, intelligence, and kindness. Carothers's work with DuPont and Nylon, his battle with depression, and his eventual suicide are also discussed.
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Collection ID: Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
Hagley ID: MSS_1985_01_01_01
Collection: Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Title: Interview with Martin E. Cupery and Harry B. Dykstra, 2 August 1978 [transcript]
Date(s): 1978-08-02
Description: 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: Interview with Gerard Bérchet, 1 August 1978 [transcript]
Date(s): 1978-08-01
Contributor(s): Strange, Adeline Bassett Cook, 1917-2004 (Interviewer), Berchet, Gerard J., 1902-1990 (Interviewee)
Description: Gerard Bérchet talks about Wallace Carothers with Cookie Strange. He discusses life in Paris, meeting Carothers, and his trip across the Atlantic to the United States. He also mentions Nylon and its various versions, including 66 and 6, 10, as well as other research projects that he was involved with at DuPont's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
Hagley ID: MSS_1985_01_01_04
Collection: Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Title: Interview with Elizabeth Carothers Kyle, 3 July 1978 [transcript]
Date(s): 1978-07-03
Contributor(s): Strange, Adeline Bassett Cook, 1917-2004 (Interviewer), Kyle, Elizabeth Carothers, 1907-1983 (Interviewee)
Description: Transcript of a telephone call between Elizabeth Carothers Kyle, younger sister to Wallace Carothers, and Cookie Strange. Mrs. Kyle talks about her childhood in Iowa, Wallace's general personality, his love of tennis and music, and his time at Tarkio College and the University of Illinois. She also discusses their sister, Isobel, and the close relationship Isobel shared with Wallace.
Collection ID: Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
Hagley ID: MSS_1985_01_01_05
Collection: Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Title: Interview with William "Bill" Mapel, July 1978 [transcript]
Date(s): 1978
Contributor(s): Strange, Adeline Bassett Cook, 1917-2004 (Interviewer), Mapel, William, 1902-1984 (Interviewee)
Description: Interviewer Adeline Bassett Cook Strange (also known as A.B.C Strange or Cookie) recounts her conversations with William "Bill" Mapel and his wife, Evelyn Raines Mapel. Strange says Mr. Mapel was hesitant to talk about Carothers, and she believes he thought he would be breaking Carothers's confidence. Mapel described Carothers as the closest friend he ever had, and despite Carothers's reserved demeanor, there was an "aura" around him at DuPont and in Wilmington society. Overall, Strange...
Show moreInterviewer Adeline Bassett Cook Strange (also known as A.B.C Strange or Cookie) recounts her conversations with William "Bill" Mapel and his wife, Evelyn Raines Mapel. Strange says Mr. Mapel was hesitant to talk about Carothers, and she believes he thought he would be breaking Carothers's confidence. Mapel described Carothers as the closest friend he ever had, and despite Carothers's reserved demeanor, there was an "aura" around him at DuPont and in Wilmington society. Overall, Strange believes that much of Carothers's life was controlled by Mapel's "aggressive interests and kindness," and that Carothers was amenable to this because of his insecurities.
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Collection ID: Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
Hagley ID: MSS_1985_01_01_02
Collection: Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Title: Interview with Julian and Polly Hill [transcript]
Date(s): 1978
Contributor(s): Strange, Adeline Bassett Cook, 1917-2004 (Interviewer), Hill, Julian W. (Julian Werner), 1904-1996 (Interviewee)
Description: Cookie Strange documents a conversation she had with Julian Hill and his wife, Polly, about Wallace Carothers. The Hills remember Carothers as a lover of music. He had a Capehart, a large radio/photograph, and would play concerts for friends at his apartment. They also discuss his affection for his sister, Isobel, and his connection to Silvia Moore.
Collection ID: Carothers Oral History Project (Accession 1985)
Hagley ID: MSS_1985_01_01_07
Collection: Oral history interviews on Wallace Carothers

Title: Roy Plunkett (right) reenacts invention of Teflon
Date(s): 1966
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Chemists Roy Plunkett (right) and Robert McHarness (center) and Technician Jack Rebok re-enact the discovery of fluorocarbon polymers.
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00000214
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file, Teflon

Title: Conducting synthetic textile research at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4420
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Apparatus assembly, Jackson Lab, Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4442
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: 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 Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont lab team discussing results of an experiment
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The industrial chemist today stands in sharp contrast with the lone wolf inventor common even a little more than a generation ago. Although the initiative and creative thought of the individual is still of prime importance, the modern researcher is a team player with a strong sense of cooperative effort. Pictured here is a DuPont lab team discussing results of an experiment.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4449
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Drying treated samples of textiles
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont research physicists arranging mirrors for infrared microspectroscopy study
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mirrors are being arranged by DuPont research physicists preparatory to making preliminary studies in infrared microspectroscopy. The measure of light absorbed by a tiny sample will help determine the molecular structure of the material being analyzed. This experiment is being carried out in a central research lab at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4441
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Purifying gases in laboratory at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At the Experimental Station, DuPont carries out fundamental research as a vital part of its scientific activities. This type of research is conducted to uncover new knowledge without regard to specific commercial objectives. Here in a fundamental research study a chemist uses a complex vacuum train of glass apparatus to purify gases for subsequent study in the gaseous phase.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4432
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: High vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the DuPont Chemical Department
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This complicated piece of high vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the Chemical Department of DuPont is used for measuring the surface are of fine powders, such as pigments. The process involves measuring the amount of gas such as nitrogen absorbed on
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4423
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont chemist at work in the laboratory with petrographic microscope
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The petrographic microscope at his right is used to identify organic compounds. Insets show (1) the crystal of an organic compound (2) the interference figure or optic picture created by passing polarized light through the crystal in the petrographic microscope. Measurement of this figure helps to identify the compound.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4428
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Special glass apparatus to determine sulfur in liquid samples
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Assemblies of glassware of special and complex design are frequently necessary for the analysis of chemical compounds in the development of new and improved products. Here a chemist and laboratory assistant at the Experimental Station set up special glass apparatus to determine sulfur in liquid samples.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4414
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical pipe organ glassware setup
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This 'chemical pipe organ' is one of the laboratory tools used in biological chemical research studies at DuPont's Stine Lab near Newark, Delaware. Its one hundred intricately connected test tubes help separate complex mixtures into individual components.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4413
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Observing a catalytic reaction
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The catalytic reaction being observed by this DuPont scientist is part of the Electrochemicals Department's long range research program. One dramatic result of this type of research was a new process for making vinyl acetate, a polymer intermediate important in the manufacture of polyvinyl acetate resin emulsion adhesives and paints.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2700
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Production of cellophane
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Progress continues after product is on the market. Moisture proof cellophane was developed three years after DuPont had plain film. Today there are more than 50 types and 5,000 uses for sheets like that inspected in Buffalo research laboratory by Hal Charch, inventor, and chemist Russell Clark and Jim Mitchell.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1654
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Researching Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Although Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified sheet of Mylar film on a laboratory stretcher. It will be evaluated by marketing specialists for possible commercial introduction. In recent years, the film has been modified by DuPont to create 50 types and thicknesses to meet a range of...
Show moreAlthough Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified sheet of Mylar film on a laboratory stretcher. It will be evaluated by marketing specialists for possible commercial introduction. In recent years, the film has been modified by DuPont to create 50 types and thicknesses to meet a range of industrial applications.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1789
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station. When cooled with liquid air, many gases are converted to liquids which are then distilled in this low temperature still, like water or other ordinary liquids.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4459
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Electron microscope
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The electron microscope is one of the research chemist's most valuable aids to discovery. This one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station is capable of 100,000 diameter magnification. The image is projected, for direct visual examination, on fluorescent screen or, for photographing, on a plate of film.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4457
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Film testing at the Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware a Film Department chemist exposes a new experimental film to extreme conditions of temperature and ultraviolet radiation. The study is part of the company's fundamental research program. Such drastic accelerated tests help make it possible to predict product performance of packaging and industrial films under actual service conditions.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1644
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Two man laboratory at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The two man lab is the basic research facility in the new buildings of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4435
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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