Tape 1, Stephanie Kwolek Innovative Lives Presentation
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kwolek, Stephanie
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content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Stephanie Kwolek Innovative Lives Presentation
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content: Stephanie Kwolek Innovative Lives Presentation / Series 3: Reference Videos (VHS)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996 March 25
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content: Box 3, Video RV 596.1
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images
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content: Total Running Time: 30:00

Tape 1 starts with over ten minutes of close up shots of unidentified machinery in an unknown location and of school children in the auditorium before Kwolek is introduced. Kwolek begins the presentation by discussing her interest in technology, her career as a research chemist, and the applications for Kevlar, which include the production of helmets, oil drilling rigs, chaps, and airplane escape chutes. She continues with a discussion about her experience working for the DuPont Company researching polymers, and she describes how polymers are chemically constructed. In 1964, Kwolek was asked to search for a high-performance fiber to reinforce tires so automobiles would use less gasoline. 

The tape skips between time code 25:30 and 25:50.