Hendrick has received the boiler but the automatic does not work satisfactorily. Hendrick requests Milne send another automatic in case the one he now has is faulty.
Hendrick complains that the boiler does not make steam sufficient to run the carriage satisfactorily. The vehicle does not go up hills faster than the electric. Hendrick questions whether another feeder on the boiler would help it to produce more...
Bogue called to Mayor's office in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and questioned amount of powder at the magazine and on selling powder to the South, mentions he does sell to stores in Virginia, needs advice of DuPont to stop selling. Mayor mentions...
New in the medical field is a hypodermic needle bun of nylon which makes good use of the hygienic characteristics of the plastic This hub, fitted to the end of a glass syringe, is the removable piece in which the needles in mount. Chosen during the...
Hendrick writes that the drum of the foot break and the rest of the knuckle joint have broken. He needs a new drum and full knuckle joint and brake strap. Hendrick asks that the items be sent express as he does not want to lose an hour of this...
Home of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Hoopes, Box 263, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania. Located at Faulk Road at Booth's Corner. House is stucco over stone front section and has a 27 foot front and 24 foot depth. Frame section at back from the leg of L is about 20 feet...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Gardening; Textile industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Why they study strange organic solids; The changing world of pumps; by the rocket sled's flare; A filter man's filter; From gas range to satelloon; gun-land's most adaptable family; How does your garden grow; Chemical claw with...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Paint industry; Farming;
Table of Contents: Dynamite does delicate work; Luggage; Aristocrat of the dressing table; Putting color in paper; Draining irrigated acres; Popularizing a product with paint; Explosives economies in coal-mining operations; Reducing mortality among...
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; Plastics industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Are we still in the old business cycle, or in a new one; Armor-plating cedar chests; Adding safety to yellow cabs; Does the work of fifteen men; Real man-sized radio; Turning a mountain into a memorial; Scupturing with DuPont...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Mining; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: The mining industry and DuPont; Story previews; Miners' right-hand man; Housewives vote for Cel-o-seal bands; yes, partners of progress; Longer life for mine timber; Paintbrush bristles, made in U.S.A.; Sand, water, and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Glassblowing; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Paper industry; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Revolution in bookbinding; Brakes relined with a bang; Ideas in glass; Paint in his business; Birth of a package; Peroxides war on waste; World's fastest tinplating; They work on tomorrow's problems; Paper is better now; Stop,...
Letter from William du Pont to his secretary, Charles K. Lennig regarding the purchase of the Montpelier Estate. He does not wish to close off negotiations but believes the property lacks too much to be worth more than the $50 per acre he is...
Letter from realtors Alex Yearley & Son to William du Pont's secretary, Charles K. Lennig noting an atteched copy of Montpelier owner Louis F. Detrick's response to du Pont's latest offer. A hand written note at the bottom from Lennig to du Pont...
Letter from William du Pont to his secretary, Charles Lennig, regarding his attempts to purchase the Montpelier Estate in Virginia. He authorizes Charles to go as high as $55 per acre without consulting him, but emphasizes that he does not want to...
Correspondence; Game & game birds; Conservation of natural resources;
Letter from W. A. Lucas, curator of the Clifton Game and Forest Society of North America to William du Pont in reference to an order from du Pont for Bob-White stock birds for his Altama estate in Sterling, Georgia. Lucas notes he does not have any...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
Oddities in the news: A robin in Newark, Ohio feathers its nest with threads of pure glass and in Toledo demonstration reveals that a single pane of tempered plate glass bends but does not break under the weight of a three-ton elephant. An now,...
