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Title: Conducting research at the Experimental Station
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4466
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Burning liquid samples in Experimental Station laboratory
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Assemblies of flasks, bubbler absorption tubes and enclosed lamps make possible the burning of liquid samples and the collection of the gases formed. Here a chemist and laboratory assistants at the Experimental Station operate apparatus for determining sulfur in liquid samples.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4415
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Research laboratory at the Experimental Station
Date(s): 1935-11-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4467
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: Glass blower making chemical laboratory glassware
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
Description: The glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces necessary are very complex, demanding an extremely high order of skill on the part of the glass blower. The glass blower in this photograph is engaged in making one of the intricate pieces necessary for work in the laboratories. On the left is a special...
Show moreThe glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces necessary are very complex, demanding an extremely high order of skill on the part of the glass blower. The glass blower in this photograph is engaged in making one of the intricate pieces necessary for work in the laboratories. On the left is a special burner used in heating the glass to the point where it is soft enough to be blown into the desired shapes.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4436
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: Glass blower at work at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Lofman, Jacob (photographer)
Description: Art and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products. Skilled craftsmen form miles of tubing into complicated spirals, columns and coils within tubes, linking them together to provide the research chemist with the tools needed to solve specific problems. Here a glass blower heats a section of tube into...
Show moreArt and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products. Skilled craftsmen form miles of tubing into complicated spirals, columns and coils within tubes, linking them together to provide the research chemist with the tools needed to solve specific problems. Here a glass blower heats a section of tube into the first step of an operation which will shape it into final form as a perfectly rounded flask.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4450
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: 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: Glass blower making chemical laboratory glassware
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Where an art abets a science. Glass blowers supply chemists with special laboratory apparatus essential to exploring chemical world. Here a glass blower gives final form to a part for high vacuum still used in chemical research at the Experiment Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4438
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Process Development Building of the Jackson Lab
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In the Process Development Building of the Jackson Lab, there are small scale replicas of many types of equipment used for a wide variety of chemicals and chemical products. They are used by DuPont to prove the practicability of laboratory developed processes before full scale plant equipment is built.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4444
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: Semi-works at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Small scale plants called 'semi-works' like this one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station are vital tools in scaling new processes from test tube to full plant size. The semi-works is a standard step in research to prove out laboratory studies and obtain a sufficient amount of experimental product for further testing in the field.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4469
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: An engineer studies the flow of gases
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: To develop data so that better process equipment can be designed represents an important phase in research. This is the type of work which is done at the Engineering Research Laboratory at DuPont's Experimental Station where this engineer studies the flow of gases through small particles of solid material in a 20 foot contactor.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4462
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: 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

Title: Reactor used in the development of a successful nylon salt process
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_4455
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Organic chemistry research 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 research lab is the heart of the modern chemical industry. Large sums of money are annually spent for research. Many trained men are employed. The chemical operations demand the utmost care and are frequently quite complex. This image shows a typical set up in an organic research lab at the Experimental Station. The apparatus shown here is designed for carrying out distillations whereby various organic materials are separated and purified.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4456
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Section of chemical store room, Jackson Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
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_4422
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: High vacuum apparatus
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
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 the surface of a given weight of the powder. The greater the amount of gas absorbed, the greater is the 'specific surface area'. In the case of certain extremely fine powders, the total surface area of the particles in one teaspoonful may...
Show moreThis 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 the surface of a given weight of the powder. The greater the amount of gas absorbed, the greater is the 'specific surface area'. In the case of certain extremely fine powders, the total surface area of the particles in one teaspoonful may run as high as 1,000 square feet.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4417
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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