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Title: Production of hydroxyacetic acid
Date(s): 1941-04-30
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control board for hydroxyacetic acid synthesis unit in Building No. 175
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0565
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Wilmington electrification substation at Lamokin, Pa., switchboard
Date(s): 1928-11-04
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300)
Hagley ID: PRR_08187
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad negatives

Title: Switchboard at South Altoona, Pa.
Date(s): 1926-08-07
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300)
Hagley ID: PRR_07284
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad negatives

Title: Control room of Antioch plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Complex chemical operations in the large tetraethyl lead unit at DuPont's Antioch, California plant are handled from a central control room. At operators' fingertips are 200 finely calibrated instruments that keep in balance the process that turn lead, sodium and ethyl chloride into tetraethyl lead, a key additive of gasoline. In practice, the human element is vital. It is employed at a higher degree of skill than ever.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3682
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Automatic controls for basic research tools at Plastic Department Laboratory
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to turn twelve stills at once instead of the customary four or five.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1856
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Recovery control panel
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_1413
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Victoria, Texas plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The instruments in the control room at DuPont's Victoria Texas plant serve both as a reporter and regulator. A meter, for example, controlling the flow of a liquid sends a report to another device set to the required standard. A third instrument then turns a valve to compensate for any deviation or error. Multiplied a hundred times this is the pattern of the automatic control the operator follows on a central panel.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1316
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Instrument board at the Newburgh, New York plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Operation of a calendar capable of turning out millions of yards of plastic coated fabric a year may be controlled form this central instrument board at the Newburgh, New York plant of the DuPont Company's Fabrics and Finishes Department. The calendar, which weight 175 tons, was placed in operation in 1957.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2600
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Antioch, California plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Nerve center of DuPont's Antioch, California plant for manufacture of Freon refrigerants and aerosol propellants is this control room where electronic equipment tells the operator just what's going on at various stages of the manufacture process. The new plant is geared to keep pace with the needs of the far west, which in the past decade has experienced a population surge resulting in rising employment, increased incomes and a growing demand for goods and service of all kinds. Part of a...
Show moreNerve center of DuPont's Antioch, California plant for manufacture of Freon refrigerants and aerosol propellants is this control room where electronic equipment tells the operator just what's going on at various stages of the manufacture process. The new plant is geared to keep pace with the needs of the far west, which in the past decade has experienced a population surge resulting in rising employment, increased incomes and a growing demand for goods and service of all kinds. Part of a record $160 million investment in new plant construction undertaken by DuPont in 1956, the Antioch site also includes facilities for manufacture of tetraethyl lead, a gasoline additive.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3453
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Victoria, Texas plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant has 185 dials and gauges on huge panel board. Just as a living room thermostat controls a heating source in the basement, so this device governs the process, with an operator watching production flow in the safety and comfort of his remote control post.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1317
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panel at Tecumseh, Kansas plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: One of the instrument panels at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which permits precise control of every step of the manufacture process of viscose, a syrupy liquid which is then converted in the casting process into clear, transparent cellophane. The high degree of control made possible by equipment like this contributes to uniformity and quality of finished product.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1620
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: New automatic controls for basic research tools
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to run 12 stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Polychemicals Department laboratory at DuPont's Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4409
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panel used in manufacturing Teflon
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Controlled at this panel is equipment for refining the monomer and producing the polymer from which is made DuPont's unique industrial plastic-Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin. Able to withstand high temperatures and the most corrosive acids, Teflon is also an excellent insulator for high frequency currents. W. M. Staudenmaier takes a reading from one of the dials.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2492
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panel at Tecumseh, Kansas plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A control panel in the viscose manufacturing operation at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Precise control at every stage of the process is essential to uniformity and high quality of the finished product. In the manufacture of cellophane, wood pulp is converted into viscose, a syrupy liquid which in turn is converted in the casting into tough, transparent film.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1619
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Automatic controls at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPont's Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour retention pond. These waste treatment facilities, installed at the time plant was build to represent an investment of more than one half million dollars. Company -wide, DuPont has spent or authorized a total of $38 million in equipment to reduce or...
Show moreAutomatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPont's Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour retention pond. These waste treatment facilities, installed at the time plant was build to represent an investment of more than one half million dollars. Company -wide, DuPont has spent or authorized a total of $38 million in equipment to reduce or eliminate wastes and fumes.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0457
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: Polymerization kettles
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Automatic control of polymerization of acrylic resin is possible with these specially designed polymerization kettles at the DuPont Company's new plastics plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Automatic weighing and timing insure consistent product quality.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2416
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room of sulfuric acid plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been making sulfuric acid for many years. It has large and small sulfuric acid plants in the East, South, and Middle West. This photograph shows operator at a sulfuric acid plant of the Grasselli Chemicals Department checking the instruments in the...
Show moreSulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been making sulfuric acid for many years. It has large and small sulfuric acid plants in the East, South, and Middle West. This photograph shows operator at a sulfuric acid plant of the Grasselli Chemicals Department checking the instruments in the control room of a sulfuric acid unit.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0606
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: 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: Control board at Sabine River Works
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Big control room at Sabine River Works, near Orange Texas from where a DuPont operator, remote from production units keeps a trained eye on the flow of processes, interfering only when flashing lights or clanging bells signal an emergency.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2500
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room at Sabine River Works
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Big control room at Sabine River Works, near Orange, Texas from where a DuPont operator, remote from production units, keeps a trained eye on the flow of processes, interfering only when flashing lights or clanging bells signal an emergency.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2584
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Circleville, Ohio plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room at the DuPont Company's plant at Circleville, Ohio where Mylar polyester film is now in commercial production. Mylar, a product of DuPont research, has many unusual, physical electrical properties.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1743
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control panel for extrusion press
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control panel for the high speed, 2500 ton extrusion press at the new DuPont Metals Center at Baltimore. The press extrudes refractory metal into tubing and other shapes used by fabricators. Columbium and columbium alloys produced at Baltimore are used in a variety of space age hardware.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3289
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Charting operations in control room of sulfuric acid plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room in contact sulfuric acid plant at the Grasselli Works of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company in Philadelphia PA. The worker is charting the operations.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0605
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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