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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: Explosive Service Bulletin, What is the Proper Position for the Detonator in a Charge of Explosive?
Date(s): 1927-11-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Newsletter of Explosives Department at DuPont.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100712_009
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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 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: Test run of new experimental fibers equipment
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Test runs of new experimental fibers are made on this equipment at the Carothers Laboratory at the Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4463
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: 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: 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

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