Companies That Built the World: Dupont - Episode 298
Unprofessional Engineering
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The Story of Brandy Wine Gunpowder
The company started out luke with 36 thousand dollars, with 18 shares of the company being sold for two thousand dollars each. It then took two years for the first gunpowder kegs marked brandy wine powder to be ready for sale. So far, dupont sells more than one million pounds of powder at an average of forty cents a pound to the us. And sales reached almost a hundred 50 thousands dollars, which would be about two million dollars in today moneys.
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