• Motorcycle Company when E. Paul du Pont purchased the latter company. The Du Pont Model G was the first 8 cylinder model from Du Pont Motors in Wilmington, Delaware...
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    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (/djuːˈpɒnt, ˈdjuːpɒnt/ dew-PONT, DEW-pont, French: [eløtɛʁ iʁene dy pɔ̃ d(ə) nəmuʁ]; 24 June 1771 – 31 October 1834)...
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    Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV (January 22, 1935 – May 8, 2021) was an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 68th governor...
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    du Pont (December 11, 1863 – November 11, 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, Delaware. He was President of E. I. du Pont...
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    The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held annually between 1989 and 1996, initially called the Tour de Trump in the first two...
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    invented by DuPont in the 1960s. Kapton remains manufactured by DuPont to this day. The name Kapton is a registered trademark of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
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  • Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University...
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    furniture. Waterhouse also put their custom bodies on Pierce-Arrow, Lincoln, Du Pont, Chrysler, Marmon and Stutz. Hugo Pfau, The Coachbuilt Packard, Darlton...
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    Neoprene (category DuPont products)
    nucleophiles, metal oxides (e.g. zinc oxide), and thioureas are used to crosslink individual polymer strands. Neoprene was invented by DuPont scientists on April...
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    an optional Roots-supercharger. Like Stutz, Du Pont was in the American luxury car market. The new Model G had a big 5.3-litre Continental sidevalve engine...
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    Stephanie Kwolek (category DuPont people)
    terephthalamide). Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. For her discovery, Kwolek was awarded the DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for...
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    The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France...
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    at the pinnacle Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance at six: 1958 with a duPont Model G Merrimac Town Car, 1959 with a Bugatti Type 57C Gangloff Atalante Coupe...
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    Retrieved 19 August 2013. Callaway, Sue (August 23, 2014). "Ferrari's model year at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance". Fortune. Retrieved December...
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    Tyvek (category DuPont products)
    is a registered trademark of the American multinational chemical company DuPont, which discovered and commercialized Tyvek in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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    Samuel Francis Du Pont, a prominent American naval officer and member of the Du Pont family. The fountain replaced a statue of Du Pont that was installed...
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    Jacques Antoine Bidermann (category Du Pont family)
    the business partner and son-in-law of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. He married into the Du Pont family and founded the estate that later became the Winterthur...
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  • Speedster 1922 Paige 6-66 Daytona Speedster 1926 Kissel 8-75 Speedster 1929 duPont Model G Speedster 1928 Auburn 8-88 Boat Tail Speedster 1933 Auburn V12 12-165...
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    Nylon (category DuPont products)
    packaging). Researchers at DuPont began developing cellulose-based fibers, culminating in the synthetic fiber rayon. DuPont's experience with rayon was...
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    Starting in 1951, DuPont purchased PFOA from 3M for use in the manufacturing of specific fluoropolymers—commercially branded as Teflon, but DuPont internally...
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    when Dow and DuPont merged to form DowDuPont, and was finalized in April 2019, when the materials science division was spun off from DowDuPont and took the...
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  • gave up racing, joined DuPont Motors as an engineer, and then moved to a related enterprise, the brokerage firm of Francis I. DuPont, where he became managing...
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    DuPont Company Eugene du Pont (1840–1902) – head of the DuPont Company (1889–1902) Henry du Pont (1812–1889) – head of the DuPont Company; Major General...
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    Freon (category DuPont products)
    wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors. In 1930, General Motors and DuPont formed Kinetic Chemicals to produce Freon. Their product was dichlorodifluoromethane...
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  • rocket motor burning DuPont fffG black powder propellant. The engine was used once and then discarded. The same technology goes into model rocket engines produced...
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    Polyoxymethylene (category DuPont products)
    POM was not commercialized at that time. Circa 1952, research chemists at DuPont synthesized a version of POM, and in 1956 the company filed for patent protection...
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  • It may also refer to: Pont du Gard, a Roman aqueduct bridge Vers-Pont-du-Gard, a commune in the Gard department Rochefort-du-Gard, a commune in the Gard...
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    improper use of cannabis based on the model Uniform State Narcotic Act. By 1951, however, spokespeople from Du Pont, Hearst and others came up with new...
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    The Pont–Brassus Railway (French: Chemin de fer Pont–Brassus; PBr) was a railway company in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It built a standard gauge line from...
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  • (12 g) bullet lodged into the throat of the barrel. A cartridge loaded with the standard charge of 78 gr (5.1 g) of Du Pont 4350 and a 180 gr (12 g) bullet...
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