Biography
He was born in in 1831.
His father was Alfred V. du Pont, the eldest son and successor of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of DuPont. He obtained a chemistry degree from the University of Pennsylvania and entered into the family business. Lammot patented B blasting powder in 1857. His invention used an inexpensive Peruvian and Chilean sodium nitrate, which he had discovered in 1858(?) could be used to manufacture black powder more cheaply than potassium nitrate, and made DuPont a major force in the blasting powder industry. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned captain of Company B, 5th Delaware Infantry Regiment that served at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island. Later, he founded the Repauno Chemical Company and helped DuPont enter the high explosives business.
He died in a nitroglycerin explosion on March 29, 1884 in Gibbstown, New Jersey.
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