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Title: Edward Burke operating cut-off machine for tapered nylon bristles
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Edward Burke, technical assistant in Arlington semi-works development, operates one of the Plastics Department's first cut-off machines for tapered nylon bristles. He started at Arlington in 1912 and has worked on development of products for the past 15 years. He worked with Dr. Ben Fields, who developed the tapered bristle.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1248
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Cut off machine for use in toothbrush manufacture
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Cut off machine used by Edward Burke, technical assistant, Arlington Works. Machine chops bristles after they have been tapered. This is experimental model.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1249
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

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 Company product information collection

Title: Technician uses cathode ray oscillograph
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Costly lab gadgets explore and test in contingent effort to build better quality into products. Here, a technician uses a radar like cathode ray oscillograph, the wavy light steaks measuring precisely the split second brining time of a blasting cap.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4445
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: New form of nylon being tested
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Nylon plastics stripping for furniture, now being produced by DuPont in experimental quantities is strong, durable, easy to clean and is expected to be available in a variety of colors. Here laboratory technician Ruth Eck orients a 2 inch wide strip by stretching it on a laboratory testing machine. When produced commercially, the stripping will be stretched 3.8 times its original length. This lines up the molecules in an orderly arrangement and provides maximum tensile strength.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1235
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Plastics coloration studies
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Plastics coloration studies at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. The panel the technician is working on it is called 'draw-down'. Pigmented samples are cured in a an oven, then tested for heat and light stability and uniformity of pigmentation. The $5 million sales service installation was opened formally on May 21.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2997
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Checking dye shades
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A skilled dye maker at DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department's Chambers Works at Deepwater Point, New Jersey is shown with a lab technician checking dye shades.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3007
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection