Collection guide for Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Françoise (Robin) Poivre
du Pont de Nemours Papers. Pierre Samuel du Pont (1739-1817) was a noted French
Physiocrat and economic advisor to Jacques Necker and King Louis XVI. In the...
Making final check on the C-54 functional model in plexiglas are left to right: Don Evans, foreman LaMar Bluth, who designed the transparent C-54, Jim Bishop and Robin Swihart. The switches operate lights at all stations throughout the model.
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,...
Text from back of photo: 'Photo shows L to R - Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien in front of their machine the St. Louis Robin, after they brought it to earth in a faultless landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, after 420 hours, 21 minutes and 30...