Alfred I. Du Pont

Alfred I. Du Pont
Author: Joseph Frazier Wall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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In this brilliantly written biography, Wall ranges from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemour's spectacular rise in pre-Revolutionary France, to the family's migration to America and the founding of the Du Pont Company, to Alfred's death in 1935, charting the growth of one of America's great industrial dynasties. Illustrated.

Nemours

Nemours
Author: Dwight Young
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9780847836598

One of America s greatest houses, the unequaled home of Gilded Age philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, has been newly restored to national acclaim. Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the 222-acre estate and onetime home of Alfred I. duPont-photographer, manufacturer, musician, politician, banker, inventor, suffragist, newspaper owner, businessman, and philanthropist. Designed and built in the Louis XIV style in 1909 by Carrere and Hastings, it is one of the largest and most opulent houses in America, to be compared only with the likes of the Biltmore Estate, the White House, The Breakers, and Hearst Castle. With seventy rooms spread out over 46,000 square feet, it is capacious, yet an intimacy of detail and graciousness of proportion give the visitor a feeling of serenity and a special sense of place that is unique to Nemours. Newly and painstakingly renovated, the house-now a museum that can be toured-glows with the finish of its original splendor, captured at long last in a volume that sumptuously reflects the magnificence of a masterpiece. "

The Visible Hand

The Visible Hand
Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674417682

The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Scale and Scope

Scale and Scope
Author: Alfred Dupont CHANDLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674029380

Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.

Nemours Children's Health

Nemours Children's Health
Author: R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467106232

In 1935, American industrialist Alfred I. duPont sparked what would become a model of pediatric medical and research excellence. With an endowed trust, his widow, Jessie Ball duPont, established the Nemours Foundation. In 1940, the foundation opened the Alfred I. duPont Institute, a small pediatric orthopedic hospital on the duPont estate in Wilmington, Delaware. Today, duPont's legacy lives on at Nemours Children's Health, the nation's only multistate pediatric health care network. With two children's hospitals in Delaware and Florida, nearly 100 pediatric care locations, an office of policy and prevention in Washington, DC, and award-winning patient education initiatives such as KidsHealth.org, Nemours has touched the lives of millions worldwide.

Alfred I. DuPont Institute, Nemours Foundation

Alfred I. DuPont Institute, Nemours Foundation
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Provides information about the Nemours Foundation, an institution dedicated to improving children's health that was established by Alfred I. duPont. Recounts the history of the institution. Provides information about the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, the Nemours Children's Clinics, the Nemours Cardiac Center, the Nemours Health Clinic, and the Nemours Center for Children's Health Media. Discusses the Nemours research programs, educational programs, and employment opportunities.