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| # | Title | Date(s) | Contributor(s) | Description | Collection ID | Hagley ID | Collection |
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| 1 | Julian Hill recreating synthesis of first completely synthetic fiber | 1941 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
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. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_1154 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 2 | Preparing a monomer for polymerization study | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
In a fundamental research project, a scientist in the Central Research Department at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station, prepares a monomer that will later be used in a polymerization study. One of the components boils at 29 degrees below zero and must be cooled to keep it in liquid form. This causes the frost or ice formation on the tubes in the picture. The coolant is a mixture of dry ice and acetone. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_3438 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 3 | Research chemist at work in DuPont laboratory | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Research chemists are engaged in a quest that never ends, they are continually searching for new and better products and for ways of improving old ones. Out of laboratories such as the one pictured here come chemical discoveries that make life easier happier and more interesting for millions. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4426 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 4 | DuPont Lavoisier Awards 1992 | 1992 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (spn), Schroeder, H. E. (former owner) |
Program featuring Lavoisier Medal recipients Nathaniel Wyeth, Edward Howard and Daniel Gintis, W. Hale Charch and Elmer Bolton. Interviews with Jack Belou, Norton Higgins, Stephanie Kwolek, Fred Sweeney and Marjorie Orr. Announces 1992 Lavoisier Awards recipients: Carl John Heffelfinger, Howard Wayne Jacobson, Hein Louis Klopping and Herman Elbert Schroeder. |
Herman Schroeder collection of DuPont Company audiovisual materials (Accession 2010.204) | VID_2010204_B03_ID01 | Film and Video |
| 5 | Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory | 1944-04 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer) |
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. Show less |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_0652 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 6 | Lavoisier Awards Opener | 1999 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (spn) |
Begins with montage of video and text. Includes interview segments from Art Anderson, Jack Kreuz and Ted Koch. Introduction of new award recipients. |
DuPont Company Textile Fabrics Department videotapes, photographs, slides and promotions (Accession 2011.320) | VID_2011320_B09_ID03 | DuPont Company Textile Fabrics Department videotapes |
| 7 | DuPont Lavoisier Award Ceremony 1992 | 1992 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (spn), Schroeder, H. E. (former owner) |
Begins with "Qualities That Endure," program featuring Lavoisier Medal recipients Nathaniel Wyeth, Edward Howard and Daniel Gintis, W. Hale Charch and Elmer Bolton. Interviews with Jack Belou, Norton Higgins, Stephanie Kwolek, Fred Sweeney and Marjorie Orr. Announces 1992 Lavoisier Awards recipients: Carl John Heffelfinger, Howard Wayne Jacobson, Hein Louis Klopping and Herman Elbert Schroeder. Award presentation follows with speaker Ed Willard, award presentation and comments from the... Show moreBegins with "Qualities That Endure," program featuring Lavoisier Medal recipients Nathaniel Wyeth, Edward Howard and Daniel Gintis, W. Hale Charch and Elmer Bolton. Interviews with Jack Belou, Norton Higgins, Stephanie Kwolek, Fred Sweeney and Marjorie Orr. Announces 1992 Lavoisier Awards recipients: Carl John Heffelfinger, Howard Wayne Jacobson, Hein Louis Klopping and Herman Elbert Schroeder. Award presentation follows with speaker Ed Willard, award presentation and comments from the recipients. Show less |
Herman Schroeder collection of DuPont Company audiovisual materials (Accession 2010.204) | VID_2010204_B03_ID02 | Film and Video |
| 8 | Dr. Lawrence Fullheart working with automatic fraction collector | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
The automatic fraction collector shown in this picture is used extensively at the Industrial and Biochemical Department's Stine Lab in Newark, Delaware in the isolation and purification of compounds from complex mixtures and in the separation of closely related compounds. Research like that being carried out here by Dr. Lawrence Fullheart, Junior is the lifeblood of DuPont, whose annual research expenditures in recent years have been more than $50,000,000. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4461 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 9 | Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, working on a distillation | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled reduced pressure in hood in one of the two main laboratories of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4454 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 10 | Chemists study slide before a background of photomicrographs | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
DuPont chemists, engaged in fundamental research at the company's Experimental Station, study a slide before a background of photomicrographs. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4474 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 11 | Working in the Textile Research Laboratory | 1920/1929, 1920, 1929 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) | DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | PC20110714_0519 | DuPont Product Information photographs | |
| 12 | Film testing at the Experimental Station | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware a Film Department chemist exposes a new experimental film to extreme conditions of temperature and ultraviolet radiation. The study is part of the company's fundamental research program. Such drastic accelerated tests help make it possible to predict product performance of packaging and industrial films under actual service conditions. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_1644 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 13 | Electron microscope | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
The electron microscope is one of the research chemist's most valuable aids to discovery. This one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station is capable of 100,000 diameter magnification. The image is projected, for direct visual examination, on fluorescent screen or, for photographing, on a plate of film. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4457 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 14 | Reactor used in the development of a successful nylon salt process | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) | DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4455 | DuPont Product Information photographs | |
| 15 | Dr. William H. Cloud studying a crystal | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Dr. William H. Cloud uses a torque magnetometer in studying the magnetic properties of single crystals. The crystal sample is inserted in a holder which is rotated between the pole caps of the electromagnet. Such studies help determine the ease or difficulty with which different types of materials can be magnetized. Dr. Cloud is one of the scientists in DuPont's Central Research Department whose fundamental research studies have led to an understanding of the mechanism of the unusual behavior... Show moreDr. William H. Cloud uses a torque magnetometer in studying the magnetic properties of single crystals. The crystal sample is inserted in a holder which is rotated between the pole caps of the electromagnet. Such studies help determine the ease or difficulty with which different types of materials can be magnetized. Dr. Cloud is one of the scientists in DuPont's Central Research Department whose fundamental research studies have led to an understanding of the mechanism of the unusual behavior of the chromium manganese antimonides, new material with unique on and off magnetic characteristics. Show less |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4452 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 16 | Perfume for rubber | 1948-06 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Aromatic chemist sniffs a sample. If suitable deodorant is added in right amount, odor of rubber will be masked. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_0656 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 17 | Two man laboratory at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
The two man lab is the basic research facility in the new buildings of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4435 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 18 | Lab consultations at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company laboratories | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Through regular visits to DuPont Company labs some 60 university scientists, acting as consultants, give DuPont chemists the benefit of their broad experience. Shown here, left, is Professor Roger Adams of the University of Illinois. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4475 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 19 | Determining the melting point | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
This DuPont chemist is making a precise determination of the melting point of a new compound obtained during the course of his research investigation in the laboratory of the Electrochemical Department. The products of this department have a broad range of industrial applications and the research has a correspondingly broad scope. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4465 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 20 | The Nylon Rope Trick demonstrated by Dr. Paul W. Morgan | 1940/1949, 1940, 1949 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
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. Show less |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_1197 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 21 | Test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
This test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline is only one of many tests run regularly by DuPont as part of its research to solve fuel and lubricant problems at the Petroleum Laboratory, Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Results of research are far reaching. Every improvement in quality means that purchasers receive a better product. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1974341_3671 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 22 | Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Debye addresses a group of DuPont scientists | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Debye of Cornell University, a DuPont consultant, addresses a group of DuPont scientists at the company's Experimental Station. Professor Debye is one of a large number of outstanding university scientists who serve in a consulting capacity at the company's research divisions. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4471 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 23 | Purifying gases in laboratory at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
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. |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4432 | DuPont Product Information photographs |
| 24 | The Development of Industrial Research in America to 1920 | 1962 | Lewis, W. David (Walter David), 1931- (author) | Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645) | MS1645_047 | Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports | |
| 25 | Analytical chemists at work in DuPont research laboratory | 1950/1959, 1950, 1959 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator) |
To guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist, trained to perform these necessary services for the research chemist. In the photograph, the chemists are carrying out determination such as the titration of acidity, the measurement of viscosity, distillation by means of steam, the determination of... Show moreTo guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist, trained to perform these necessary services for the research chemist. In the photograph, the chemists are carrying out determination such as the titration of acidity, the measurement of viscosity, distillation by means of steam, the determination of nitrogen etc. Show less |
DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341) | 1972341_4433 | DuPont Product Information photographs |