Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Avoid Thawing Accidents; The Trouble Duo; Improved Red Cross Dynamite; A Winner: Red Cross Extra 20%; Snow Doesn't Fease the Red Cross Blaster; Word "Danger" on Every Cartridge; A Remarkable Shot with DuPont Straight Dynamite and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Big Boom in Trapshooting; Prosperity Insurance; Popularizing a Sport Through Advertising; Trapshooting Club Secretary Blasts Cellar With Red Cross; Wasted Ammunition; National Advertising of Fabrikoid; Catskill Aqueduct an...
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Government contracts; Ordnance industry;
Mason as secured saltpeter for the Du Pont Company from the Secretary of War. He requests Du Pont gunpowder for the the U.S. Indian Factory Choctaw and for Natchitochez. Powder to be sent through Indian Agent in Philadelphia, Thomas Waterman.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Waterman, the Philadelphia agent for the U.S. Office of Indian Trade, has secured freight for Du Pont gunpowder headed to Fort Wayne aboard the packet Happy Returns.
The tensile strength of fabrics is tested on this modern version of a medieval torture tack. A swathe of fabric is secured in jaws of the machine which exerts a pulling pressure to tear it apart. Point at which it tears is recorded by dial at right.
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
Written on back: "To the officers, seamen, and marines of the U.S. Navy. This view of the Delaware 74 secured in the drydock, U.S. Navy Yard, Gosport, is dedicated with great respect."
