TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, S TI - Hayden, Oliver M. (Oliver Mills), interviewed by Raymond C. Ferguson in Wilmington, Delaware on February 18, 1986 ID - ng451j49n PB - Science History Institute CY - Philadelphia AV - Oral History Transcript 0022 VL - Oral History Transcript 0022 AN - Oral History Transcript 0022 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ng451j49n AB - Hayden begins with his life in Windsor, Connecticut, his academic life at Clark College, and his first employment with insurance companies in Hartford. He served in clinical laboratories and other assignments in the U.S. Army Sanitation Corps during World War I. He joined the Fisk Rubber Company, where he gained experience in rubber compounding and quality control. Hayden then moved to the Organic Chemicals Department of Du Pont, where he worked in screening chemicals for use in the rubber industry, the development of neoprene, and became Manager of the Rubber Laboratory. He moved into Technical Sales management, Rubber Chemicals Division, and became Assistant Director of Sales in the Elastomer Chemicals Department. During the interview he talks about colleagues he knew and friends he made at Fisk, Du Pont and in the rubber industry. KW - Hayden, Oliver M. (Oliver Mills), 1893-1991 KW - Chemistry KW - Rubber, Artificial KW - Chemists KW - Chemists--Biography KW - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company KW - Rubber LA - English ER -