QUIZ: Can You Name The Original Products Of These Famous Companies?

What did DuPont sell in its early days?

Retry Correct Incorrect Today, DuPont is one of the largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the world, but its founder, the French-American chemist Éleuthère Irénée, got his start supplying gunpowder to the Union Army during the Civil War.

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What did DuPont sell in its early days?

• Gun powder
• Vulcanized rubber
• Fabric
• Cigars