Oct 22, 2022
It is time for the puzzlement. This is a historical puzzler this time. And no Googling this! That would be cheating.
A while back, back in the day, as they say, our incredible producer Doug Berman was studying chemistry. And at that time, we were calling him Dougie Lavoisier. Some of you might remember this. We called him this out of respect for the French chemist, Lavoisier.
Okay, so here is the puzzler.
A long time ago, there was a young French immigrant who came to America. He had studied under the great Lavoisier back in France and was now coming to America. As a brand new American now, this fellow and his family embarked upon a new business venture. This is the student of Lavoisier, who's name shall remain nameless because that is part of the puzzler! If I gave you the name, you'd know the answer to the puzzler.
Okay, they embarked on a new business based on what he learned from the great chemist, Lavoisier. This young man and his family used this information they learned in France to build a company and eventually a large conglomerate which is still in existence today. A very big company.
The puzzler is, what is the name of this company?
And here are some hints. This first hint is that it came from France. The second hint is that there are cars all over the world, to this day, that have products made by this company. Manufacturers today use many products from this company that Lavoisier helped create.
Good luck!
Answer time for this historical puzzlement.
Here's how it goes, in a nutshell. This young student of Lavoisier comes to the United States to seek his fame and fortune, mostly fortune. And he did indeed build a very successful business using knowledge he obtained at the hands of the great chemist, Lavoisier. We asked for the name of that company. This is a huge company that is still around today, and cars all over the world contain products made by this company.
What this young student learned from Lavoisier was obviously some sort of chemisty. And the chemistry he learned was how to make gunpowder. So Lavoisier was the director of the French powder works and he taught this young man how to make gunpowder. When this young man came to America, he saw that lousy gunpowder was manufactured in this country and he and his brothers set out to make an improved gunpowder and this young man's name was DuPont. Everyone has heard of DuPont, they make all sorts of automotive products as well as many many others.
