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Title: Julian Hill recreating synthesis of first completely synthetic fiber
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled molten sample of material from a laboratory test tube at the company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. The molasses-like mass stuck to the glass stirring rod and was drawn out into a thin fiber.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1154
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1910/1919, 1910, 1919
Contributor(s): Lee, Harry E. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_004
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1910/1920, 1910, 1920
Description: Pipe leading from one building to another.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_025
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station and Hagley Museum and Library
Date(s): 1957-12-17
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4484
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Dr. Wallace H. Carothers' laboratory
Date(s): 1928
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00000216
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: Research Committee (January 1961)
Date(s): 1961-01-13
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Savoy Hilton Hotel (New York, N.Y.) (event place)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_018_10_001
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Experimental spinning titanium blank
Date(s): 1973-11-14
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0670
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Pathway through trees at DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1910/1920, 1910, 1920
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_008
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: Testing Laboratory
Date(s): 1895?, 1895
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'View of Testing Laboratory, Lukens Steel Co. showing men at work and test specimens of steel ready to be tested. some specimens of thick plate steel which have been bent are shown in the foreground.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0501_a
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1931-04-13
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_062
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1944-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, applies the last test to a bottle of perfume-which depends on the olfactory sense and not on formulas, at the New Brunswick, New Jersey factory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. For perfume making is both an art and a science. The materials are supplied by he chemist-whether he extracts them from natural sources or creates synthetic components. But the blending calls for the perfumer who...
Show moreTheodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, applies the last test to a bottle of perfume-which depends on the olfactory sense and not on formulas, at the New Brunswick, New Jersey factory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. For perfume making is both an art and a science. The materials are supplied by he chemist-whether he extracts them from natural sources or creates synthetic components. But the blending calls for the perfumer who works by inspiration. It takes a great artist to create a rare perfume, for not enough is known of the perfumers work to proceed by scientific formula. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery-there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory means has ever been found of extracting this natural oil. Moreover, there is no known natural extract so sweet or so peculiarly powerful in odor as synthetic lilac. Chemistry converts volatile turpentine into fragrant lilac rivaling natures illusive floral fragrance.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0652
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical lab testing perfumes
Date(s): 1942-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0654
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Gun for Testing Black Blasting Powder, DuPont Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1912?, 1912
Description: Gun on stand in doorway, facing small outdoor shed.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_023
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: Working in the Textile Research Laboratory
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: PC20110714_0519
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1910/1920, 1910, 1920
Description: View of railroad tracks and shed on banks of Brandywine.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_046
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1956
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Public Relations Department (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
Description: On verso: DuPont's Experimental Station on the Brandywine. The buildings spread out on the north bank of the Brandywine River, near Wilmington, Delaware, comprise DuPont's Experimental Station, one of the largest industrial research laboratories in the world. Newest buildings are in the upper half of the aerial photograph.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_016
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: Experimental spinning titanium blank
Date(s): 1973-11-14
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0669
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Chestnut Run Laboratories
Date(s): 1955-06-20
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4536
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nitrocellulose Purification Building, DuPont Experimental Station
Date(s): 1912-06
Description: View of interior with wooden vats and machinery.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_030
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1928-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4526
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Rokeby mill fire, Henry Clay Village
Date(s): 1906-04-28
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_H50_025
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: DuPont Company Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1910/1920, 1910, 1920
Description: A man walks outside a large building with papers under his arm.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
Hagley ID: HF_E48_031
Collection: DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: Laboratory building at the Repauno dynamite plant in Gibbstown, New Jersey
Date(s): 1897
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This building , used as a laboratory at the Repauno dynamite plant, Gibbstown, New Jersey was forerunner of DuPont Company's first formal research unit, the Eastern Laboratory, established in 1902 at Gibbstown. Lammot du Pont, father of the three brothers, Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, former company presidents, established the Repauno Works in 1880. This picture was taken in 1897.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0769
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Early view of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Early buildings of the Experimental Station, which borders historic Brandywine Creek, near the site of the original powder mills built by the founder of the company more than 150 years ago. Research conducted at the Station has led to the development of numerous new and improved products, including nylon and neoprene, which have contributed to comfort and national security. This picture shows the first DuPont Country Club, left background, which is now a cafeteria for Experimental Station...
Show moreEarly buildings of the Experimental Station, which borders historic Brandywine Creek, near the site of the original powder mills built by the founder of the company more than 150 years ago. Research conducted at the Station has led to the development of numerous new and improved products, including nylon and neoprene, which have contributed to comfort and national security. This picture shows the first DuPont Country Club, left background, which is now a cafeteria for Experimental Station employees. A $30,000,000 addition, completed in 1951, occupies area in upper right of picture, formerly golf course.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4491
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1956-05-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4508
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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