Nylon, the first fiber synthesized entirely from petrochemicals, was introduced as a sewing thread by DuPont in 1936, followed by DuPont's acrylic in 1944.

* DuPont has been sued by 1, 995 people who claim dioxin emissions from DuPont's plant in DeLisle, Mississippi, caused their cancers, illnesses or loved ones ' deaths ; of these only 850 were pending as of June 2008.

In August 2005, Glen Strong, an oyster fisherman with the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma, was awarded $ 14 million from DuPont, but the ruling was overturned June 5, 2008, by a Mississippi jury who found DuPont's plant had no connection to Mr. Strong's disease.

Holliday started at DuPont in the summer of 1970 at DuPont's Old Hickory site.

Under Holliday's leadership, DuPont established a goal of achieving sustainable growth – increasing shareholder and societal value while simultaneously decreasing DuPont's environmental footprint.

In 1918 he assisted in arranging DuPont's purchase of a substantial stake in General Motors from previous chairman William C. Durant, and later that year became treasurer of DuPont replacing Raskob.

The standard DuPont Mammoth powder developed by Thomas Rodman and Lammot du Pont for use during the American Civil War had grains averaging 0. 6 inches diameter, with edges rounded in a glazing barrel.

Lesmok powder was a product developed by DuPont in 1911 one of several semismokeless products in the industry containing a mixture of black and nitrocellulose powder.

* The DuPont Company on the Brandywine A digital exhibit produced by the Hagley Library that covers the founding and early history of the DuPont Company powder yards in Delaware

" Teflon ®" is a brand of PTFE owned by DuPont Co.

He appeared with Chuck Connors and Pippa Scott in the 1960 episode " Trial by Fear " of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

As late as 1986, the Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy ( an association representing the CFC industry founded by DuPont ) was still arguing that the science was too uncertain to justify any action.

Companies such as DuPont, US Steel, and General Electric that merged during the Great Merger Movement were able to keep their dominance in their respective sectors through 1929, and in some cases today, due to growing technological advances of their products, patents, and brand recognition by their customers.

The new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr., scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the team's image by unofficially changing its name to the " Bluejays ".

It was designed and built by DuPont based on an experimental design by Enrico Fermi, and originally operated at 250 megawatts.

The first commercially available polyether polyol, poly ( tetramethylene ether ) glycol, was introduced by DuPont in 1956 by polymerizing tetrahydrofuran.

They are also commonly known by the DuPont brand name Freon.

* 1953 – First commercial polyester fiber production by DuPont.

DuPont Manual is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School.

Hopewell, part of the Eppes ' plantation, was developed by DuPont Company in 1914 as Hopewell Farm, an incorporated area in Prince George County.

A large DuPont plant ( now Invista and owned by Koch Industries ) and the associated Benger Laboratory where Lycra ( a very famous brand of spandex ) was invented, as well as a large textile mill called Wayn-Tex ( now owned by Mohawk Industries ), were significant employers for residents through much of the 20th century.

In April 1923, General Motors created the General Motors Chemical Company ( GMCC ) to supervise the production of TEL by the DuPont company.

Some plectra are of the homopolymer variety of acetal, sold by DuPont under the name " Delrin ", while others are of the copolymer variety, sold by Ticona as " Celcon ".

The editorial concerned legislative proposals to ease the tax burden on DuPont stockholders, in connection with the United States Supreme Court ruling that DuPont must divest itself of its extensive General Motors stock holdings.

Hazard Powder Company was one of the three largest ( with DuPont and Laflin & Rand ) among the six companies of the United States Gunpowder Trade Association popularly known as the powder trust.

There is a regional Goodyear manufacturing facility that works in conjunction with Veyance Technology, which recently completed an $ 18 million expansion and has investors including the Carlyle Group, a DuPont operation, the eastern United States headquarters of United Rotary Brush, Ray Lewis and Son, Scioto Services, and many others.

Shortly after arrival in the United States DuPont was hunting with Major Louis de Tousard, a former French artillery officer then employed by the United States Army to procure gunpowder supplies.

DuPont commented on the inferior quality of the American-made powder they were using for hunting, and the major suggested he should use his experience from France to manufacture gunpowder in the United States.

At that time, two mathematical project scheduling models were developed: ( 1 ) the " Program Evaluation and Review Technique " or PERT, developed as part of the United States Navy's ( in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation ) Polaris missile submarine program ; and ( 2 ) the " Critical Path Method " ( CPM ) developed in a joint venture by both DuPont Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation for managing plant maintenance projects.

The reports of these analyses, distributed to the media and to politicians were informed by teams of published experts, researchers and professionals which in the 2010 analysis included Dr Robert DuPont, first President of the United States National Institute of Drug Abuse ( NIDA ).

This led to roles on other shows such as The United States Steel Hour, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, NBC Television Opera Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The DuPont Show of the Week, The Phil Silvers Show, Way Out, The Defenders, Temperatures Rising, The Love Boat, The Partridge Family, Love, American Style, McMillan & Wife, Barney Miller, 227, Murder, She Wrote, St.

Percodan was first marketed by DuPont Pharmaceuticals and prescribed in the United States in 1950.

Upon securing a 99-year lease of the Explosives Company in 1903, DuPont enjoyed use of all significant smokeless powder patents in the United States, and was able to optimize production of smokeless powder.

When government anti-trust action forced divestiture in 1912, DuPont retained the nitrocellulose smokeless powder formulations used by the United States military and released the double-base formulations used in sporting ammunition to the reorganized Hercules Powder Company.

The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held between 1991 and 1996.

* High Falls ( DuPont State Forest ), a waterfall on the Little River in North Carolina, United States

" DuPont was considered one of the most positive forces for amateur sports in the United States.

The team currently fields four Sprint Cup Series cars, including the # 5 Farmers Insurance Group / Quaker State Chevrolet Impala for Kasey Kahne, the # 24 Drive to End Hunger / DuPont Chevrolet Impala for four-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, the # 48 Lowe's / Kobalt Tools Chevrolet Impala for five-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, and the # 88 Diet Mountain Dew / United States National Guard Chevrolet Impala for Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

It starred Robert Shayne, Richard Crane and Joyce Terry, directed by E. A. DuPont, and was originally distributed in the USA by United Artists Corp. Beverly Garland, in a supporting role, appears here in her first fantastic film.

The neighborhood exists northeast of Delaware Avenue, southwest of Riddle Avenue, east of Union Street and west of DuPont Street, with Lovering Avenue as its eastern boundary of Lovering Avenue.

The exchange had more than 400 members ranging from corporations like Ford, DuPont, and Motorola, to state and municipalities such as Oakland and Chicago, to educational institutions such as University of California, San Diego, Tufts University, Michigan State University and University of Minnesota, to farmers and their organizations, such as the National Farmers Union and the Iowa Farm Bureau.