Brochure for concrete swimming pools from the Portland Cement Association featuring examples of public and private concrete swimming pools throughout the United States.
Huge concrete encased steel tanks provide containment for radioactive by products at the Savannah River Project. This picture, taken during installation of the tanks, shows forms for the concrete processing. Once installed the tanks are backfilled...
Huge concrete encased steel tanks provide containment for radioactive by products at the Savannah River Project. This picture, taken during installation of the tanks, shows forms for the concrete pre-stressing. Once installed, the tanks are...
Resurfacing material is made by mixing neoprene latex with a special kind of water setting cement and an aggregate of finely crushed stone. Man with brush is applying a prime coat of neoprene latex to secure a tight bond to the old concrete....
Table of Contents: The look of quality; Flexographic film printing comes of age; Electroplating black beauty; Taking the bite from corrosive fluids; Abstract forms, enduring finishes; A matter of degrees; Suited for the alst frontier; Smooth...
Table of Contents: America's Highways; The Crow, a Chicken Thief; Blasting Concrete; The Making of Process Ink; Denver Mountain Peaks; National Sales Service; Secret of DuPont Py-ra-lin Enamels; Origin of the Rubber Industry; Good Homes and How to...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont Gelatin Blasts Tunnels Under the Mississippi; Dynamite Extinguishes Mine Fire; The Blast Heard 'Round the World; Practical Explosives' Efficiency; DuPont Blasting Gelatin Not Low Freezing; Foresight and Hindsight; Lighting...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Conservation; Excavating Lake Washington Canal; Dependability; Smokeless Bananas; Ballistite Unhurt by Three Months' Immersion; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Two or More Electric Blasting Caps in a Bore Hole; Depth of Charges...
Table of Contents: Old black powder days; Mining by caving; Sportop fabrics; Weber finds Duco a great aid; Fabrikoid for interior decoration; The Cuban central highway; New beauty in bedspreads; Fine furniture from Holland; A visit with...
Table of Contents: How mighty is dynamite; From coffee mill to custom mill; When winter comes; Five concrete piers disappeared; Now anyone can letter perfect display signs; Mop on varnish? well, why not; What's new; For those who like to shoot;...
Table of Contents: Wild life restoration; Chromite in the Philippine Islands; Caring for concrete; Leg bands of Pyralin; Hail to the scale; Shoes -- a new chapter in an old story; Fort Peck Dam; Rayon adds new charm to velvets; The Cavalcade of...
Freight car runs wild, leaps on auto- One of eleven freight cars that ran wild on a railroad siding near Cincinnati tore through a concrete ramp, which lifted it ten feet into the air and fell on a Plymouth automobile parked near the tracks. The...
The hot lab at the Ford Motor Company is unique and ideally suited for laboratory handling and storing of radioactive isotopes. The double room vault is completely underground and is built of thick concrete. The picture shows the entrance to the...
Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
Workmen preparing to raise the country's first nylon music circus tent theater at Birmingham Center, PA. The sunken concrete oval, seating 1,880 is 120 feet wide and 160 feet long.
