Text from image: "Wood Ferry Boat "City of Englewood" built for Jackson & Sharp Company for Riverside & Fort Lee Ferry Company in 1898. Length 135'-0" Beam 32'-0" Depth 13'-4". Beam Engine #878-36"x108"." Large derrick in background.
Text from image: "Side wheel Steamer "Gay Head" built for New Bedford, Martha Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Company in 1890. Length 201'-0" Beam 34'-0" Depth 11'-6" Beam Engine 50" x 10"."
Text from image: "Steamer "Wakefield" built for Washington Steamboat Company in 1884. Length 160'-0" Beam 28'-0" Depth 8'-0" Beam Engine 36" x 108" no. 729."
Pencoyd Iron Works, Pencoyd, Pennsylvania Manufacture of bridge and building structural steel by the open hearth process. Electric beam punching machine, work is fed by motor driven roller tables at right of photograph.
Written caption: 1792 Blowing house to the left with pipe stoves for the hot blast in the center with the furnace and stock houses to the right. Note the bell beam at the top of the furnace.
Blast furnaces - 18th Century; Stone furnaces; Open top furnaces; Hand fed furnaces; Blower houses; pipe stoves; Hot blast mains; Downcomers; Bell beams; Stock houses
1792 Blowing house to the left with pipe stoves for the hot blast in the center with the furnace and stock houses to the right. Note the bell beam at the top of the furnace.
Tilt Hammer machinery, hammer head off to left of photo. The iron cam ring is at the center behind the large gear with the wooden hammer beam extending to the left. The forge was built around 1740 and made wrought iron wagon tires and sythe...
Bobbins of twisted yarn are checked on creel preparatory to winding on beam for weaving. Each individual strand, called an end, must be wound with meticulous care to insure steady feed in high speed weaving operation. Machine at DuPont's...
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
By measuring the angle through which a beam of plane polarized light is rotated, the polarimeter makes possible of this instrument saves a great amount of time in analytical procedures. In this picture, a laboratory assistant records results of...
Staple to spinning to weaving operation, regardless of textile
Warp ends feed from beam into loom in weaving operation. Operator must make careful check of quality as completed fabric emerges. Loom is part of experimental facilities of DuPont Textile Research Laboratory at Chestnut Run near Wilmington,...
Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord goes on a creel from which the yarn is run to a beam. High tenacity rayon, which was first developed by E.I du Pont Nemours & Company, is manufactured at DuPont plant in Richmond, Virginia.
on front of card: "Sunbeam cottages, US 41, Fort Myers, FLA." on back of card: "Sunbeam Cottages. Overnight Guest Rooms. Efficiency Apartments. Telephone 2-8642. Mr. & Mrs. Guy D. Beam, Owners, Mgrs. On U.S. 41 (Tamiami Trail). 2 miles south...
