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Title: Analytical chemists at work in DuPont research laboratory
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: To guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist, trained to perform these necessary services for the research chemist. In the photograph, the chemists are carrying out determination such as the titration of acidity, the measurement of viscosity, distillation by means of steam, the determination of...
Show moreTo guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist, trained to perform these necessary services for the research chemist. In the photograph, the chemists are carrying out determination such as the titration of acidity, the measurement of viscosity, distillation by means of steam, the determination of nitrogen etc.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4433
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: A 'breath meter' used for strain and stress measurements
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Highly ingenious laboratory tools and instruments help DuPont scientists uncover many secrets of nature ordinarily hidden from the human senses. This 'Breath meter' is so sensitive that mere blowing on the steel bar can easily be registered. This instrument, for measuring strains and stresses, is one of many used by engineers in a mechanical lab where special equipment is developed.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4443
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: 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: Conducting research at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
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_4416
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Conducting research at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
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_4427
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Conducting research at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
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_4418
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: 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: Constant high temperature oven
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Constant high temperature oven used for laboratory control work at the Jackson Lab of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4419
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panels in DuPont's Jackson Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Elaborate control panels on small scale units yield basic research data for the chemist. This panel is used for experimental work in DuPont's Jackson Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. In this laboratory the DuPont Company conducts research on dyes and dye intermediates; neoprene and other elastomers; textile, leather paper, runner and petroleum chemicals; camphor and fluorinated and miscellaneous organic products.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4421
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panels in DuPont's Jackson Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Elaborate control panels on small scale units yield basic research data for the chemist. This panel is used for experimental work in DuPont's Jackson Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. In this laboratory the DuPont Company conducts research on dyes and dye intermediates; neoprene and other elastomers; textile leather, paper, rubber, and petroleum chemicals; camphor and fluorinated and miscellaneous organic products.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4411
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: A corner of the new Special Service Lab at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A corner of the new Special Service Lab at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station illustrates the range of research equipment available. This makes it possible to carry out chemical reactions and various physical operations with equipment not ordinarily available in a conventional research laboratory.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4439
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Determining a chemical reaction
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A DuPont chemist uses electrochemical measurements to determine the course of an organic chemical reaction. This picture was taken at the in Department research lab at the company's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4412
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Determining the melting point
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This DuPont chemist is making a precise determination of the melting point of a new compound obtained during the course of his research investigation in the laboratory of the Electrochemical Department. The products of this department have a broad range of industrial applications and the research has a correspondingly broad scope.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4465
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Dr. Joseph Balthis, research chemist
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Dr. Joseph Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled research pressure in a hood in one of the two man laboratories of the Chemical department's lab shown to visitors to the dedication of the addition to the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4429
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, working on a distillation
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled reduced pressure in hood in one of the two main laboratories of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4454
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Dr. William H. Cloud studying a crystal
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Dr. William H. Cloud uses a torque magnetometer in studying the magnetic properties of single crystals. The crystal sample is inserted in a holder which is rotated between the pole caps of the electromagnet. Such studies help determine the ease or difficulty with which different types of materials can be magnetized. Dr. Cloud is one of the scientists in DuPont's Central Research Department whose fundamental research studies have led to an understanding of the mechanism of the unusual behavior...
Show moreDr. William H. Cloud uses a torque magnetometer in studying the magnetic properties of single crystals. The crystal sample is inserted in a holder which is rotated between the pole caps of the electromagnet. Such studies help determine the ease or difficulty with which different types of materials can be magnetized. Dr. Cloud is one of the scientists in DuPont's Central Research Department whose fundamental research studies have led to an understanding of the mechanism of the unusual behavior of the chromium manganese antimonides, new material with unique on and off magnetic characteristics.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4452
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont chemist watching an organic reaction
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Since beginning in 1927, DuPont's program of fundamental research has proved helpful in laying the foundation for applied research along many new lines. The chemist in this picture at the company's Experimental Station is watching an organic reaction which one day may provide the basis for a discovery as dramatic as nylon or neoprene.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4451
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 laboratory 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_4434
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont technician weighs a titanium salt
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The balance is one of the basic research tools of the chemist and the starting point of virtually all analyses. This DuPont technician at the Experimental Station weighs a titanium salt for quantitative analysis.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4460
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: Equipment at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
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_4424
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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