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OUR APPROACH
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Innovation Starts Here
1802-99
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Its Evolution
1900-26
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1927-40
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1941-69
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1970-89
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DuPont becomes a modern, diversified chemical company and undergoes a major reorganization.
1900s
Research
1902
New Owners
1902
Thomas Coleman du Pont
1902
Hamilton M. Barksdale
1902
J. Amory Haskell
1902
Harry G. Haskell
1902
Arthur J. Moxham
1902
Charles Lee Reese
1902
Laflin & Rand Powder Company
1903
Experimental Station
1903
William G. Ramsay
1904
Parlin, New Jersey
1904
Pyroxylin
1905
Willis Fleming Harrington
1906
Arthur Douglas Chambers
1906
Robert Ruliph Morgan (R.R.M.) Carpenter
1909
DuPont, Washington
1910s
Synthetic Textile Fibers
1910
Artificial Leather
1911
Fin Sparre
1912
Split Into Three Parts
1912
Hopewell, Virginia
1914
Deepwater Point
1915
Pierre S. du Pont
1915
Elmer K. Bolton
1915
Plastics
1917
Making Dyes
1917
Old Hickory
1917
Leonard A. Yerkes
1917
Paints and Coatings
1918
DuPont, GM & Cars
1919
William C. Spruance
1921
Buffalo, New York
1923
Charles M. A. Stine
1923
Duco Paint
1923
Dynamite in Chile
1923
Cellophane
1924
Rayon
1924
Film Business Begins
1925
First Ammonia Made
1925
William Hale Charch
1925
Thomas H. Chilton
1926
Henry A. Wallace
1926
ICI-DuPont Alliance