Table of Contents: Following chemistry through the average business day; Princess Ileana's private car; Mining Adirondack magnetite; That added touch of charm; Effective game conservation; Rayon in the swim; Antioquia Railway extension to the Cauca...
A relief map issued by the Public Roads Administration in Washington D.C. indicates approximately the average density of traffic on the proposed National System of Interstate Highways. The 40,000 mile system, advocated strongly by the AAA, would...
A relief map issued by the Public Roads Administration in Washington D.C. indicates approximately the average density of traffic on the proposed National System of Interstate Highways. The 40,000 mile system, advocated strongly by the AAA, would...
Work in the Main Power House of the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI apparently is conducive to a ripe old age. Here are the more elderly of the staff of the power house, lined up in front of the latest of the three huge 110,000...
First air express shipment in history of transportation consisting of five bolts of silk weighing 50 pounds was flown 65 miles in 71 minutes from Dayton to Columbus OH on Nov. 7 1910, lashed to the framework of an open cockpit Wright biplane....
The “inside story” of 1940 car-The slightest jiggle of this 1940 Plymouth, which Miss Average Motorist, ordinarily would never detect, is here picked up by the newest-type “vibration meter” and amplified to a roar like thunder in the...
If you told the average man in the street that these chess men and poker chips were once just a couple of household chemicals he would probably laugh and tell you to stop kidding him. But carbolic acid (phenol to the chemist) and formaldehyde can...
John Sheehan now makes about 10,000 combs in an eight hour day at the DuPont Company's Leominster, Massachusetts plastics plant which is operated by the Plastics Department. He handles two compact molding machines, each of which forms 10 combs...
This photograph demonstrates the exceedingly fine particle size of Ludox colloidal silica, a new product of the DuPont Company. This picture was taken with an electron microscope. The magnification is 25,000 diameters. This high magnification was...
Total cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went...
This polyvinyl alcohol unit at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department is characteristic of the costly and complicated equipment used by the chemical industry. DuPont has an average investment of $26,900 per employee in...
Rope or tow of man made textile fibers cut into desired and uniform lenths, varying as required for ultimate use in producing fabrics and garments. The short lengths shown here are roughly comparable to the average length of cotton.
Text from back of image: "Little Miss Gisel Gaubert, daughter of ex-army aviator of France flies daily with her father in his French Farman plane for an average of 50 flights a week."
Text from back of image: "Jimmy Murphy, acknowledged king of race drivers, just can't seem to finish in any other position than first. In a survival-of-the-fittest race at the Fresno (California) Raisin Day Classic on April 26, Jimmy piloted his...
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...
Typed caption: "Eileen Leonard visits the home of some miniature World's Fair performers at the DuPont 'Wonder World of Chemistry' building. A marionette show is used to sum up the story of chemical research and its relation to the lives of the...
Typed caption: "With a Dage TV receiver at her elbow to show what seats, berths or bedrooms are available on all trains going to her destination during a two-week period, prospective passenger at the new Ticket Sales and Service Bureau in...
Photograph at top left dated 1926. Photographs at top and bottom right dated 1930. Photograph at bottom left includes the following handwritten on the back: "Irish Yew 16 x 12. This is just an average tree - just good enough to be a specimen. ...
