Abstract The Emerson Tippetts papers (1925-1989) is divided into three basic categories: Tippetts' education, his research, and speeches he gave late in his career. Emerson Tippetts is a chemist who was Research Director in E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Company Textile Fibers Department, 1951-1968 where he developed the use of rayon as a reinforcing agent in automobile tires and directed product development for rayon, acetate, spandex, and nylon textiles.