Mess Hall, one of eight in construction camp, served meals family style to 45,000 contraction workers. In one 18 month period they dished out 10 million eggs, 1.5 million pounds of chicken, 2.3 million pounds of beef, 2.3 million loaves of bread,...
Compressors are basic tools for making ammonia for industry and as a starting material for other products of the Belle WV plant of DuPonts Polychemicals Department. Six of a battery of fifteen primary compressors in line build up fast pressures in...
Just a few of the many types of yarn coned at rayon plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. In the front row, left to right, are cones of 1,100 denier Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord, weighing four pounds; 50 denier bright...
Hendrick wants to exchange the present boiler and burner for a 15 or 20 horse power boiler. He believes the the 90 pounds of air pressure needed to work with the kerosene boiler the company sent him would be too much for the tank.
A crane size chunk of titanium metal sponge weighing 2,500 pounds reflects growth in DuPont's production of the metal by 1953. World's first small scale commercial production of the metal was announce by DuPont in 1948. Maximum output then was ...
Caption text: "The Sikorsky UH-60-A Black Hawk helicopter, a utility tactical transport designed to meet mission requirements for the U.S. Army, used about 160 pounds of "Kevlar" 49 aramid fibers in each craft. At least 80 pounds of weight savings...
Mrs. Du Pont is relaying more news of the explosion of 11,000 pounds of finished powder, workers and family were sure that Irenee had been killed, but he was safe
Lighter, stronger, more flexible fire hose made with an outer jacket of Dacron polyester fiber woven on an extruded neoprene tube gets into action faster, saving time when seconds may mean lives. Light weight (46 pounds for 100% Dacron, including...
View of titanium metal ingots. The one on the left has been scraped down to improve appearance. It weighs about 400 pounds. The other appears as it comes from the furnace and weighs about 650 pounds. Both were cast by an induction furnace at the...
Since dust would contaminate the silicon, finishing areas at the Newport plant of the DuPont Company are kept hospital clean and works wear white surgical gowns, white hats and handle the material only with spotless white gloved hands. Here a...
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
Fifteen specifically engineered hyper compressors like this one take gas previously compressed to 450 pounds per square inch and building the pressure up to 12,000 pounds per square inch at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company Polychemicals...
Fifteen specifically engineered hyper compressors like this one take gas previously compressed to 450 pounds per square inch and building the pressure up to 12,000 pounds per square inch at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company Polychemicals...
This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...
Hendrick inquires if they know enough about their boilers to give him a guarantee that the 10 horse boiler will evaporate 300 pounds of water per hour. Hendrick references the company's ad and asks if the boiler burns kerosene as well.
Hendrick requests that Taunton reply to his earlier inquiries and adds a query about the height and diameter of the 10 horse boiler. Hendrick prefers their boiler to one from Salamandrine based on its lesser weight and appearance. The guarantee he...
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Table of Contents: The best years of their lives; Open heart surgery on a star attraction; Lining up against pollution; They've seen the daylight; No longer a secret agent; Trimming pounds from the space shuttle; Backing the winners; The hole...
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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...
Table of Contents: New York air show; The world in word and picture; Wood preservation an economic gain; The money value of game; DuPont laquer on cables; Handbags in the spotlight; See how the shoe fits; Do you keep a diary; Pinar Del Rio to...
