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Trojan Powder Company

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Commercial Solvents Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-026-001
Abstract

Correspondence, patents, publications, notes, production plans, proposals, memos, reports, and data belonging to the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC), as well as the personal files of Richard S. Egly, CSC’s Associate Scientific Director, and Emory E. Toops, Jr., a physical chemist in CSC’s Technical Development Department. The collection deals with the production of nitroparaffins and nitroparaffin derivatives, an area in which Commercial Solvents Corporation was preeminent.

Dates: 1924-1985; Majority of material found within 1938-1981

Papers of Walter O. Snelling

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-012-GB08-19
Abstract

This collection is mainly a research collection with much of its content being devoted to the field of military ordnance, explosives and pyrotechnics, but in his capacity as Director of Research for the Trojan Powder Company, Snelling maintained files on many different aspects of industrial chemistry.

Dates: 1899-1965; Majority of material found within 1920-1955

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Subject
Amino acids 1
Ammonium nitrate 1
Anti-infective agents 1
Biotechnology industries 1
Caprolactam 1