The dome in the foreground is part of containment vessel housing the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at the Savannah River Plant. The vessel is 70 feet in diameter and approximately 125 feet high. Shown is the 65 foot portion of the structure...
NASAs Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise is shown mated atop its 747 carrier jet during the first captive test flight of the Orbiter February 18, 1977 over the Mojave Desert of Southern California. During the test flight the mated aircraft/Orbiter...
The upper strip is a fastness test record of a vat dye the lower strip a direct dye. The white swatches are undyed materials used in the test to demine whether the dye bleeds onto the adjacent material. If these fabrics are examined carefully,...
A new understanding of how metals wear under friction and how to reduce this problem, may come from fundamental research being carried out at DuPont's Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world. It spreads over 95...
Studying effects of chemicals on laboratory animals
The weight of animals is a guide to effect of the test materials. The fact that rabbit at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine at Newark, Delaware lost no weight following test helped clear one plastic film for good...
The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor, an experimental pressurized heavy water reactor, designed and built by the DuPont Company for the Atomic Energy Commission at its Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina became operative March 3,...
Hendrick writes asking them to send Mr. Hale back to help with the machine. The machine had been out of order during the 2 or 3 weeks Hale had been there and so Hendrick was unable to test the machine to his satisfaction.
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows glider being towed by airplane shortly after leaving the ground during test flight. Scoring his second victory in a glider within the last month, Dale Drake, Reedley, Cal. aviator, soared to an altitude of 1200...
Text from back of image: "An autogiro plane, recently brought to this country from England by Harold Pitcairn, president of the Pitcairn Aviation Company, known as the Cierva 'Windmill Craft,' with C. F. Faulkner at the controls, attained an...
For the "hot test" at this automotive plant where six cylinder engines first come to life, overhead conveyors automatically find unoccupied test stands and carry each engine into place. (Photographed at Cleveland Engine Plant of Ford Motor Company)
Monolon, new trolling line for fresh and salt water fishing, features fine Monel metal wire braided around a nylon monofilament core. Made by Braided Wire Products Company of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the new line is non-corroding, extremely...
The creation of 'Teflon' at the Richmond, Virginia Plant
A laboratory technician places a disc of Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, in a high voltage testing set to measure its dielectric strength. The transformer oil bath serves as an insulator to prevent voltage flash over...
