The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
A supervisor of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department prepares to set off charge of 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which helped blast a trench for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near...
Hendrick requests information about their battery. He intends to purchase an electric automobile, possibly a Columbia Surrey. Hendrick requires a battery of sufficient capacity to run a surrey 150 miles with one charge on good country roads such...
Hendrick writes of his disappointment that the vehicle will not be shipped before the end of September. He takes the opportunity to tell them that the voltage of the new power the Electric Light Company put in and from which he will charge the...
Barnett writes to say that their letter to Mr. Hendrick has been received. He agrees that they should equip the automobile with the best breaking devices, as decided during the previous weeks' visit to the factory--at no extra charge.
Hendrick writes to inform the company that the vehicle is not satisfactory. He feels that one of the problems is that the battery needs a full charge to get up hills. He declares the vehicle would be all right in cities with paved, flat streets,...
on back of card: "Wigwam Village #2. 601 N. Dixie Hwy. Cave City, Ky. 42127. Two miles east of I-65 interchange, 31 W. North Cave City. Six miles from Mammoth Cave National Park. Wigwam Motels are air-conditioned, steam heated, private bath, large...
Charles M Schwab, left, Chairmen of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was among the more than 200 industrial executives and business leaders who attended a luncheon given by Alfred P. Sloan Jr Chairmen of General Motors, right, in New York on Monday...
A 1910 model Buick towers over the low slung XP-300, a "dream" car built by Buick for experimental purposes. The XP-300 is the latest creation of Charles A. Chayne, seated, vice president of General Motors in charge of the engineering staff. He is...
This Burlington Denver Zephyr locomotive, placed on exhibition today at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Electromotive Division of General Motors at La Grange, is said to be the longest travelled self-propelled land vehicle in the world,...
Open hearth furnaces, Tap holes, Explosive charges, Torpedos, Runners
Inland Steel Company Indiana Harbor Works, East Chicago, Illinois. Open hearth explosive charge or torpedo used to open tap hole. The runner is in position to receive the molten metal
Blast furnace, Open top furnaces, Bleeder valves, cast houses, Elevators Stacks
Open top furnace with the charging hopper bell open to drop the charge into the furnace. The elevator for the workers bringing up the charging buggies can be partially seen to the right
Cupolas, Skip hoists, Stok bins, High line, Railroad cars
Contrast the primitive type of cupola an the left with that shown on the right. The left is made of a number of cast iron staves bound together with wrought iron bands. The material for the charge is carried up a ladder by hand and dumped into...
Crucible steel plant at a unknown location. Either pulling a hot crucible from the heating furnace or placing a crucible loaded with a charge into the pit
Kaiser Steel Company, Fontana, California. Coke ovens looking west, larry car in position to charge the oven, pusher in the right foreground, quench tower in left background and coke wharf to the left
