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Please note: This exhibit is closed. For reference only.
Throughout its history, the DuPont Company
has been an industrial giant, with a reputation for innovation and high-quality
products. But The core of the exhibition Inside and Out
is a scale recreation of a house that has been constructed in the History Museum
Gallery. Three rooms and a storage area have been completely furnished
Inside and Out: Two Centuries of DuPont Products in the Home can be seen at: Delaware History Museum Admission: $4.00/adults |
for over half of its history, it made few products for
household use. Then in the early twentieth century, beginning with
cellophane, rayon, and most particularly, nylon, the company began a great
synthetic materials revolution that brought wave after wave of new products into
the home and workplace - in nylon stockings, clothing, carpeting, paint,
kitchenware, toothbrush bristles, and a myriad of other areas. In the
process DuPont transformed itself into a household word.
with
products made from DuPont inventions. Products range from easy-to-spot
TeflonR linings of pots
and pans in the kitchen to StainmasterR carpeting
on the floors to lesser known products such as RyniteR
a plastic found in kitchen appliances. These products were developed over
a long span of time, from LuciteR in
the 1930s to the new SolaeTM, a soy protein in
foods and beverages.
