This is one in a series of the first released wartime aircraft production photographs, showing the Boeing Aircraft Companys all out, 24 hour a day, seven day week effort to keep em flying. That this effort has succeeded is evidenced by the recent...
Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
Screw machine production increased by new Jones & Laughlin "E" Steel. Production of nuts, studs, fittings and other machined parts on equipment such as this six spindle automatic screw machine has been increased from 10 to 25 per cent when Jones &...
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
Lycra spandex fiber in production at the DuPont Company's plant in Waynesboro, Virginia undergoes a double check before shipping, Inspectress in background certifies yarn for shipping, wraps it in cellophane and racks it on shipping buggy. The...
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 ...
Early research work on titanium metal is illustrated here by DuPont scientist. A thimble full of titanium crystals on an electrode was a peak test tube output. DuPont announced the world's first small scale commercial production in 1948. Since...
Stages of production of titanium metal are illustrated here. Raw material for its is ilmenite (left), a black sand like ore which is also the basic material for titanium dioxide pigments, the whitest white pigment made. First stage of the metal is...
Military officers; Parades & processions; Telegrams; Military organizations
Copy of a telegram from Hugh Stirling to W. N. Chandler regarding a torchlight procession that Stirling's Independent Company of Delaware Infantry would be participating in.
Military officers; Military organizations; Military rations
Copy of telegram from James M. Peoples to Major Henry B. Judd. Peoples, Captain of Company A, 7th Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry, requests information on rations. Henry B. Judd was the U.S. Army liaison officer in Wilmington, Delaware.
Theres skill in his fingertips. And fortunately it is put to good purpose for Michael Kenney, Ford Motor Companys tool and die worker is picking a lock. His is equally a home repairing cameras, taking care of hospital equipment or making special...
Mrs. Ruth Haig with two bullfrogs that went to market. The only problem that stands between the domestic producer of frogs and enormous profits is the production of frogs in sufficient numbers. Until some of the problems of production have been...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
Bombers for the British are rolling off the production lines of the Lockheed Aircraft factory, Burbank in steadily increasing numbers, as is evidenced by this line up of famous Lockheed Hudsons, on which mechanics are making final adjustments for...
Santa Monica CA- Along brilliantly lit assembly lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys plant here, night crews are rushing production of DB-7B attackers bombers, recently acclaimed as night fighters in the defense of blacked out Britain. Equipped with...
This is a reissue of a picture of the XF-92A a research interceptor which, because of its Delta Wing, has a resemblance to the F-102, Delta Wing interceptor now ordered into initial production by the U.S. Air Force. The F-102 will be built by...
