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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: 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: Chemist inking the press
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Fabric dyes for printing designs on piece goods are tested on a small press at DuPont's Technical Laboratory Chambers Works. Here a chemist is shown inking the press with color paste. Each batch of dye made at the Chambers Works must agree with the standard set by the Technical Laboratory or it cannot be shipped.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3009
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: 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: Determining the degree of gloss
Date(s): 1938-02
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: To determine the degree of gloss in a lacquer or finish, du Pont chemists use a device that measures the amount of light reflected. The light from a constant source is thrown back from the panel into the telescope tube. One half of the 'eyepiece' is illuminated by this reflected radiation, with the other half lighted by a small bulb in the photometer tube attached to the side of the telescope. This light is passed back and forth in the tube until the brightness of the two section meet. The...
Show moreTo determine the degree of gloss in a lacquer or finish, du Pont chemists use a device that measures the amount of light reflected. The light from a constant source is thrown back from the panel into the telescope tube. One half of the 'eyepiece' is illuminated by this reflected radiation, with the other half lighted by a small bulb in the photometer tube attached to the side of the telescope. This light is passed back and forth in the tube until the brightness of the two section meet. The distance of the light from the 'eyepiece' is then a measure of the amount of light reflected or the gloss.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2784
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Determining the drying time of lacquer
Date(s): 1937-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: How fast a lacquer or finish will dry is determined by the use of plate glass discs coated with the material to be tested and revolved slowly while a thin trickle of sand falls on them from a cone shaped container. It has been found by DuPont chemists that the point at which the sand no longer adheres accurately determines the drying time.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2782
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Dr. Hale Charch In laboratory
Date(s): 1927
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_P00002241
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: Dr. Hale Charch, pioneer in cellophane
Date(s): 1924
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The late Dr. Hale Charch, pioneer in the development of moisture-proof cellophane, working in DuPont laboratory in 1924.
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00001077
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: Dr. Wallace H. Carothers
Date(s): 1928
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Dr. Wallace Carothers, a promising young chemist, joined DuPont in 1928 as head of a fundamental research program in organic chemistry. Eleven years later a plant was producing the nylon that came from this research.
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00000215
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: DuPont commercial on research chemists and fellowships
Date(s): 1950~, 1950
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor)
Description: Film explains the process of becoming a chemist, and the importance of fellowships given to universities by corporations. Nylon, chemical rubber, Penicillin are mentioned.
Collection ID: DuPont Company films and commercials (Accession 1995.300)
Hagley ID: FILM_1995300_FC251_05
Collection: DuPont Company films and commercials

Title: Ferdinand Hurter, Swiss industrial chemist
Date(s): 1880/1898, 1880, 1898
Contributor(s): Litchfield, Carter (collector), Lewkowitsch, J. (Julius), 1857-1913 (former owner)
Description: March 15th 1844 - March 5th, 1898
Collection ID: Carter Litchfield photographs and ephemera on the history of fatty materials (Accession 2007.227)
Hagley ID: 2270352
Collection: Carter Litchfield history of fatty materials collections

Title: Judging dyed skeins
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Judging dyed skeins for strength and shade of the dye under north light in the Standardization Lab of the Technical Laboratory, Dyestuffs Division of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3008
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: Lab assistant taking optical activity measurements with polarimeter
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Pix, Inc. (photographer)
Description: By measuring the angle through which a beam of plane polarized light is rotated, the polarimeter saves a great amount of time in analytical procedures. In this picture, a laboratory assistant records results of test on the polarimeter at the Experimental Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4464
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Shown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPont's research laboratories and is believed to represent the earliest organized research effort in the American Chemical industry. Its staff, which now numbers more than 200 men and women, has contributed many important developments in the field of industrial and military explosives. The...
Show moreShown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPont's research laboratories and is believed to represent the earliest organized research effort in the American Chemical industry. Its staff, which now numbers more than 200 men and women, has contributed many important developments in the field of industrial and military explosives. The laboratory has also served as a training ground for men who have helped staff some of the company's other research laboratories that today total more than 30.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0665
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: The Nylon Rope Trick demonstrated by Dr. Paul W. Morgan
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial manufacture of nylon requires high temperatures, precision controls and complex and expensive equipment. Dr. Morgan shows here how a nylon rope can be drawn from a beaker when a solution of a fast reacting diacid chloride in a water immiscible solvent...
Show moreDr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial manufacture of nylon requires high temperatures, precision controls and complex and expensive equipment. Dr. Morgan shows here how a nylon rope can be drawn from a beaker when a solution of a fast reacting diacid chloride in a water immiscible solvent is brought into contact with an aqueous solution of an aliphatic diamine. A film of high polymer forms where the two solutions meet which is called the interface. The film can then be pulled from the interface immediately and as if by magic, it is continuously replaced to form a long endless cord of polyamide-hence the nylon rope trick. This particular method of making nylon is an invaluable laboratory tool to researchers and teachers in chemistry because permits polymeric experimentation which are both inexpensive and uncomplicated.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1197
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume for rubber
Date(s): 1948-06
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Aromatic chemist sniffs a sample. If suitable deodorant is added in right amount, odor of rubber will be masked.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0656
Collection: DuPont Product Information 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: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1942-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: About two dozen constituents, besides terpineol, combine to make synthetic lilac perfume. Mr. Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, is shown at the scales of his laboratory compounding the ingredients of lilac perfume. 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...
Show moreAbout two dozen constituents, besides terpineol, combine to make synthetic lilac perfume. Mr. Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, is shown at the scales of his laboratory compounding the ingredients of lilac perfume. 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_0651
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Research for pleasing perfumes at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The head of the laboratory, shown the picture, is comparing perfume odors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0650
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: A 'quartz fingernail' used to determine hardness of paint films
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A 'quartz fingernail' is used by DuPont chemists to determine how hard a paint film is. The device measures the weight necessary to drive the rounded end of a quartz rod a given distance into the film. In this manner the exact hardness of the paint is ascertained,
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2779
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Research chemist conducting explosives research
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 (photographer)
Description: At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station, Wilmington Delaware, this Explosives Department research chemist uses high vacuum, glass equipment in a study that may lead to a new chemical compound or a new and better way of making a known compound. The work is part of the department's fundamental research program aimed at the discovery of new products outside the explosives field.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0663
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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: Testing for moisture content in dynamite ingredients
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Richie, Robert Yarnall, photographer (photographer)
Description: A chemical test at the DuPont Company's Eastern Laboratory in Gibbstown New Jersey determines moisture content in dynamite ingredients. Here a chemist boils a sample with carbon tetrachloride and measures the amount of water. At Eastern Laboratory, research is carried out on blasting supplies, dynamite and other high explosives and their intermediates and miscellaneous organic and inorganic chemicals.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0662
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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