This circular tunnel kiln is used for firing ceramic pigments, a step in the manufacture of ceramic colors at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. Constant temperatures as high as 2450 degrees Fahrenheit are maintained and the material for...
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A navy F2H-2P Banshee photo plane equipped with a forward firing aerial mapping and reconnaissance camera installed on its nose, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9). It banks in its approach, levels off, gets a cut from the landing...
Army Ordnances two stage Bumper rocket zooms skyward from the long range Proving Ground at Cocoa FL on the first leg of its flight. When the basic vehicle, a V-2, reaches the end of it s first burning period, a smaller Wac Corporal missile will be...
Florence, Italy- A vase being painted its final design before going to the firing kiln. This work is often doen by young artists who have received instructions fromt heir father, as many as three generations working in the same factory at one time.
Ceramic colors are tested by firing them on glassware in this small decorating lehr at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department plant at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. This is the discharge end of the lehr. The decorated ware is placed on a traveling belt...
The exact temperature of kilns used for firing ceramic colors during manufacture is registered on a series of pyrometers, permitting scientific control at the Electrochemicals Department.
A single operator sets DuPont explosives rivets, attaching slats to interior of delivery truck body in blind fastening operations. He is using a DuPont riveting iron to apply heat to the rivet, firing the tiny explosive charge within and expanding...
A single operator sets DuPont explosives rivets, attaching slats to interior of delivery truck body in blind fastening operations. He is using a DuPont riveting iron to apply heat to the rivet, firing the tiny explosive charge within and expanding...
Repauno, New Jersey plant (historical) dynamite plant
The energy of an explosive is commonly measured by shooting a definite amount in a ballistic mortar, a heavy swinging cannon, expelling a close fitting projectile into a sand pile, and observing how much swing is imparted to at the mortar by the...
Text from back of image: "The world's first aerial battleship, and the largest flying-boat in the Royal Air Force was recently launched at the works of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd., at Brough, Yorkshire, England. The machine is...
