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Within Limits. The new device, now undergoing tests by the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines, is called an exhaust-manifold reactor. Developed by Du Pont over the past two years, the reactor system would replace the regular manifold unit on U.S. vehicles. It consists of two 4½-in. by 22-in. alloy-coated stainless-steel cylinders that fit over the sides of a standard V-8 engine. (Only one reactor is required for a six-cylinder model.) As high-temperature exhaust gases flow into the reactors, air is blown into them by a small pump, causing...
...average of 900 p. p.m. in exhaust from cars unequipped with pollution-control units. Carbon monoxide has been reduced to less than .7% of the total exhaust from a car equipped with the reactor. Both figures are well within the 1970 standards proposed last week. Nonetheless, said one Du Pont official, the unit is far from commercially feasible. Yet to come: additional testing, reduction of the reactor's size, and selection of low-cost durable materials...
...group headed by Gainsbrugh: N.Y.U. Professor Solomon Fabricant, Du Pont Economist Ira T. Ellis, Michigan U. Professor Paul W. McCracken, American Airlines Vice President George P. Hitchings, Bank of America Vice President Walter E. Hoadley, U.S. Steel Economist William H. Peterson, N.Y.U. Professor Jules Backman, Bankers Trust Vice President Roy L. Reierson, Ragnar D. Naess of Naess & Thomas, investment counselors, Commerce Department Economist Louis J. Paradiso, and James W. Knowles, research director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee...
...discovery was something of a coup for Fieser. His research team at Harvard beat chemists from Du Pont and Standard Oil in a Government competition to develop napalm. In the course of his research, Fieser found a perfectly good civilian use for the product: it made a fine crabgrass killer, burning away its seeds while leaving good grass roots untouched. During and after World War II, he received several letters of thanks for his invention, which soldiers claimed saves thousands of American lives in battle. No one ever complained to him about the use of napalm until Viet...
...Brother-in-law of Artist Andrew Wyeth, whose own brother Nathaniel happens to be a Du Pont engineer...