TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Early glass cell for polyamide preparation ID - df65v789s DA - 1935/04/12/ YR - 1935 AV - Joseph X. Labovsky Collection of Nylon Photographs and Ephemera, Box 1 VL - Joseph X. Labovsky Collection of Nylon Photographs and Ephemera, Box 1 AN - Joseph X. Labovsky Collection of Nylon Photographs and Ephemera, Box 1 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/df65v789s AB - General view of a glass cell used for the preparation of polyamides during the early stages of nylon production and research at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. Predating the autoclave developed by Dr. Edgar W. Spanagel, glass cells such as this one served as a type of reactor used to combine adipic acid and hexamethylediamine in order to form nylon salt. KW - Nylon KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station KW - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company KW - Chemical reactors LA - ER -