Table of Contents: Battling hidden hunger; Wash-and-wear shirts; New caboose on the scouring train; Rivets for the jet age; Woodland paratroopers; Dacron joins the fire fighters; A matter of switchable parts; Passing the mop test; Driver education...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Office equipment & supplies; Automobile industry; Health care; Food industry; Exhibitions; Soybeans; Furniture; Plastics industry; Stadiums;
Table of Contents: Fascinatin' fastener; The clenet: fun for the road; Passing the cost containment test; A problem solved in varmland; A wrap-up on frozen fish; Great discovery; Safeguarding the Cinderella crop; Furniture in a flash; The mizpah:...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Story of an Auto Top; Story of Linoleum; Hunters' Paradise; Art of Wood Finishing; Passing of a Famous Tree; Travel Right; Collar Comfort in Hot Weather; Blasting Practice in Joplin Zinc District; Victory Auto Finish; Blasting...
Letter from William du Pont to his father while attending MIT. In addition to asking for more money on account of his doctor's bills and clothes washing, William expresses concern over passing his upcoming examinations, though he says he will do...
Letter from William's sister, Ellen, to William expressing regret that their mother, Louisa, did not get to see William and his two children before her passing, but offers consolation that their mother had a change of heart about his marriage and...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
The Pittsboro Chatham County NC school has a well organized school lunch plan. Passing along in a line, the children, who have paid 5 cents for their lunch, take their well filled plates and bottles of milk from the table. Todays lunch consists of...
The Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pennsylvania. The first troops in Homestead. The Eighteenth Regiment passing the office and Works of the Carnegie Company .
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
A step in the manufacture of Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here Butacite is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his requirements for windshields and...
Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged exposure to heat, light and...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
Color analyzer which breaks a color into its spectral components by passing it through a series of prisms. This makes possible an actual physical measurement of color values and permits comparison with a standard, it has been found by DuPont.
After ceramic colors are applied on glassware, they must be subjected to a heat treatment which, in effect, is passing the decorated ware through heating cycle from room temperature through zones of increasing temperatures until a maximum of...
A miniature single cylinder paper machine. The box at the far right contains the coloring agent and the furnish, composed of either wood pulp or rag stock, depending upon the type and quality of paper desired. The subsequent option is comparable to...
Metal degreasing at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Metal soiled with lubricants and dirt picked up during fabrication enter one end of degreaser and emerges from the other thoroughly clean, dry and ready for...
A DuPont chemist at work in the laboratory. The petrographic microscope at his right is used to identify organic compounds. Insets show (1) the crystal of an organic compound (2) the interference figure or optic picture created by passing polarized...
