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Technical manuals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

DuPont Company, Louviers Works manuals

 Collection
Accession: 2320
Abstract:

The DuPont Company's Louviers Works manufactured dynamite in Colorado, beginning production in 1908. The works provided explosives, primarily for mines in the region, and was part of the DuPont Company Explosives Department. This small collection consists of five copies of operations manuals from the DuPont Company's Louviers Works that were issued to the manager of the works. The manuals are about plant methods, office rules for safety protocols, and chemical operations for producing ammonium nitrate, nitric acid concentrate, and ammonia oxidation.

Dates: 1920; 1938-1939; 1955; 1958

Tazewell Lamar McCorkle papers

 Collection
Accession: 2157
Abstract:

Tazewell Lamar McCorkle Sr. was regarded as a leading authority in the field of commercial explosives. Trained as a chemical engineer, McCorkle spent more than thirty years as a sales representative with the Explosives Department of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The papers are composed entirely of copies of official DuPont Company materials that McCorkle retained after his retirement. These files provide extensive documentation of departmental policies and procedures governing the storage and delivery of DuPont explosives.

Dates: 1903-1980; Majority of material found within 1948-1980