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| When E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (aka Dupont) exhibited at the National Sportsmen’s Exposition in New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1895, it was probably the first national trade show for the Wilmington, DE,-based chemical manufacturer. Now famed for inventing Freon, Teflon, and Kevlar, Dupont made just one product from its founding in 1802 to 1880: gunpowder. By the War of 1812, it was the largest gunpowder supplier to the U.S. government, later providing as much as half of the gunpowder used by the North in the Civil War. In 1935, Dupont went from supplying arms to covering legs, with the invention of nylon — igniting riots when hosiery couldn’t be produced fast enough to meet demand. |
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Photo: Hagley Museum and Library
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