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Title: Acele acetate rayon testing
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1089
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Knitting machine in a rayon testing laboratory
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A knitting machine in a rayon testing laboratory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company being prepared for a test of rayon yarn.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1090
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont laboratory
Date(s): 1930/1960, 1930, 1960
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Typical laboratory scene in a rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1096
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Inspecting cakes of rayon
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Inspection of cakes of rayon which have just been removed from the spinning machines one of the DuPont Company's Rayon plants.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1094
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Checking bobbins at DuPont Textile Research Laboratory
Date(s): 1954-10-18
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Bobbins of twisted yarn are checked on creel preparatory to winding on beam for weaving. Each individual strand, called an end, must be wound with meticulous care to insure steady feed in high speed weaving operation. Machine at DuPont's $5,000,000 Textile Research Laboratory at Chestnut Run near Wilmington, Delaware is part of production facilities supplementing research in seventeen physical and chemical laboratory units to diversify and improve uses of company's man-made textile fibers.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1093
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing rayon
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Rayon testing at one of the Rayon manufacturing plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1088
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Elasticity, tensile strength, and elongation tests on rayon
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Samples of rayon yarn being given tests for elasticity tensile strength and elongation at the rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company near Richmond, Virginia
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1091
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Acele acetate rayon testing
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1085
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Rayon skein inspection
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of rayon skein inspection as conducted at all rayon plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1092
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing nylon at the Haskell Lab for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Chemical compositions or chemical made fibers that come in contact with the skin create specialized and challenging problems for the toxicologists. As an example, before nylon was put on the market, it was carefully tested by DuPont's Toxicologists to make sure it would not cause dermatitis. First, it was applied to laboratory animals in a variety of ways. Proved harmless to them, small pieces of nylon were taped to legs or arms of hundred of paid volunteers like those above. Patches were...
Show moreChemical compositions or chemical made fibers that come in contact with the skin create specialized and challenging problems for the toxicologists. As an example, before nylon was put on the market, it was carefully tested by DuPont's Toxicologists to make sure it would not cause dermatitis. First, it was applied to laboratory animals in a variety of ways. Proved harmless to them, small pieces of nylon were taped to legs or arms of hundred of paid volunteers like those above. Patches were left on for one week, the removed for ten days and again applied. Final test of nylon's purity came with wear tests of hosiery by 5,000 women. Studies such as this which have been carried on by DuPont for many years are being continued at the Haskell Lab for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3878
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Elasticity, tensile strength, and elongation tests on rayon
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Laboratory assistant at the Experimental Station of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company selects a strand of rayon yarn to be subjected to test for strength and elasticity. Tensile strength or the force required to break a fiber or yarn and 'elongation', the distance it will stretch before breaking, are important factors in determining the utility of textile materials.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1084
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Checking rayon for physical characteristics
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In addition to constant chemical checks on the process of manufacturing yarn at the viscose rayon plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, scrutiny is also given to such physical characteristics as the uniformity of denier, elongation, elasticity and breaking strength.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1083
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing fabrics of synthetic textiles
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_0807_1
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs