Dupont's Entrepreneurial History

Intro. (Hongyu Li)

As the chinese old say:“ the sound of guns is worth a ton of gold.” The war not only claimed the lives of innumerable people, destroyed the numerous public war broke out, and did not mean that companies that destroyed everything and meet the needs of war welcomed the flourishing business opportunities. In fact, many companies took advantage of the war opportunity to widen the gap with their competitors. The need for wartime is a source of some companies' start-ups and also an important reason for some companies to win.

Trace the DuPont company's entrepreneurial history, its connection with the war at a glance.

As early as the First World War more than 100 years ago, in 1789 during the French Revolution, E. I. du Pont is small

E.I. DuPont and his brother Victor returned to France to raise funds and purchase pyrotechnics production equipment, and established DuPont in France in April 1801. At that time, Napoleon was eager to destroy the UK’s gunpowder export business and was therefore very happy to sell gunpowder production equipment to DuPont at a cost price. E.I. DuPont was the director of the gunpowder factory. At the time he was just 30 years old, he was very rich and confident. However, after he returned to the United States to arrive in Philadelphia, he immediately encountered a new problem. At the time, US law did not recognize a limited liability private company established in France. His limited share company must be reorganized as a partnership company. In July 1802, 31-year-old E.I. Dupont built a gunpowder factory on the bend of the brandy river, thus starting a new life in a country younger than him.During the Anglo-American War of 1812, DuPont sold 227 tons of gunpowder to the U.S. government, thus freeing itself from the difficulties of growth and establishing the main role of the gunpowder industry. Henry Dupont, the third president of DuPont, pushed the family business to the first climax. On August 8, 1889, "General" Henry Dupont died and was 77 years

Hanford City is the largest construction project in the war. The space occupied by various facilities is more than 71 times that of the largest old Walnut plant in World War I. Hanford Engineering won the DuPont company’s ability to undertake large-scale complex technical projects in the United States. Preferred company's reputation. In addition to producing a large amount of explosives and weapons, DuPont also specifically undertakes the task of producing atomic