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Title: Hydraulic press at the Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Formed into press cake the powder is broken into large pieces by chipping rolls. Here operators empty the hydraulic press at the DuPont Company's Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0672
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: Soda mill at the Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Black powder line starts at soda mill, where synthetic nitrate is unloaded, screened and weighed out. Powder man at DuPont Belin Works uses traditional scoop shaped like snow plow to move sodium nitrate to the screen equipment, while more cascades down from overhead conveyor belt.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0676
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hand cars at the Belin Works black powder plant near Moosic, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Narrow gauge tracks and distinctive hand cars link DuPont's sprawling Belin Works black powder plant at Moosic, Pennsylvania. It is now the company's only black powder plant. Once the Explosives Department has 25 black powder plants in 13 states.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0677
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Wheel mill at the Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At wheel mill all ingredients-charcoal, sulfur and sodium nitrate-are grouped together by pair of wheels weighing 10 tons. For safety, the operator at Belin Works of DuPont Company leaves the building after charging the tub, as above.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0673
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Developing explosives at the Eastern Laboratory of the Repauno, New Jersey plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Nitroglycerin is poured from a beaker into a small gelatin dynamite mixer at the Eastern Laboratory at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company where new explosives are constantly in the process o development.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0667
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Shown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPont's research laboratories and is believed to represent the earliest organized research effort in the American Chemical industry. Its staff, which now numbers more than 200 men and women, has contributed many important developments in the field of industrial and military explosives. The...
Show moreShown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPont's research laboratories and is believed to represent the earliest organized research effort in the American Chemical industry. Its staff, which now numbers more than 200 men and women, has contributed many important developments in the field of industrial and military explosives. The laboratory has also served as a training ground for men who have helped staff some of the company's other research laboratories that today total more than 30.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0665
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Safe remote control operation
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: First panel board in company was established on a powder line to permit sage remote control operation. Here an operator starts up a mill. To insure maximum safety, DuPont's Belin Works is made up of several dozen small and independent buildings, each housing a distinct phase of the operation.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0670
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Materials being sent to mill for pulverizing at the Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Charcoal and sulfur, basic raw materials, are stored separately at Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania then pushed in these narrow gauge cars to mill for pulverizing. The plant furnishes all DuPont's black powder customers, ranging from fisherman's supply houses which by the product for whalers' and Coast Guard line throwing guns to specialty quarries producing monumental stone.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0674
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Glaze mill where powder is dried and polished
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Powder is dried and polished in glaze mill, shown in photo, where coating of graphite is also applied to protect it from moisture. Tumbling in large drums for 8 hours accomplished entire operation. Finished powder then goes to pack houses, where it is loaded into kegs.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0671
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Cords of smokeless powder being collected after pressing into suitable size
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: These cords are next cut to appropriate lengths.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0669
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing for moisture content in dynamite ingredients
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Richie, Robert Yarnall, photographer (photographer)
Description: A chemical test at the DuPont Company's Eastern Laboratory in Gibbstown New Jersey determines moisture content in dynamite ingredients. Here a chemist boils a sample with carbon tetrachloride and measures the amount of water. At Eastern Laboratory, research is carried out on blasting supplies, dynamite and other high explosives and their intermediates and miscellaneous organic and inorganic chemicals.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0662
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Experimental tunnel used in explosives research
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Experimental tunnel at DuPont Company's plant at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey is used by Eastern Laboratory technicians to duplicate conditions in underground mines. Tunnel is drilled 100 feet into face of a stone cliff. It enables researchers to measure full scale effect of explosives.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0664
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Black powder ingredients
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ingredients for black powder are relatively inert when unmixed. Years ago, sodium nitrate replaced saltpeter as the key ingredient in black blasting powder. This improved powder was developed by Lammot, grandson of the founder of the DuPont Company, and father of Pierre S., Irénée and Lammot du Pont.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0675
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Studying explosions at testing ground in Gibbstown, New Jersey
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Shooting laboratory blast on DuPont's Eastern Laboratory testing ground at Gibbstown, New Jersey enables technicians to study results with high speed motion picture camera, which takes pictures up to 8000 frames a second. Laboratory tests like this make possible slow motion record of effects of an explosion.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0666
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Early laboratory for dynamite research
Date(s): 1900/1910, 1900, 1910
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Potbellied stove for winter heating was a feature of this early DuPont plant control laboratory at the company's Repauno dynamite plant in Gibbstown, New Jersey. It contrasts sharply with today's ultra-modern laboratory facilities.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0668
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs