The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Table of Contents: Ascanio sobrero; Inheritance tax bogey; Backstage at Birdsboro; Auto tops and how to take care of them; Keep your powder dry; Adventure in Idaho; Absorbing facts by the pictureful; The other side of the fence; Cap crimper family;...
Includes articles: The Hand of Progress (on the growth of the Morse Company); Morse Solicitor Is Globe-Trotter; Theories of Wages; The Closed Or Open Shop - Which (about danger of Trade-Unionism).
This unusual view of the ice bridge at Niagara Falls was obtained from a Bell Aircraft helicopter hovering near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Ice covered rocks below the American Falls add an artistic touch and the Cave of the Winds (right)...
"A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
Furnaces. Date from Civil War period and were closed down by Union Troops late in the war. Property was later owned by Republic Steel for the ore. Furnaces restored in the 1970's and are now part of the Tannehill Museum complex. One of the...
When it is closed up, this device looks like an Amazon's vanity case, but in its present position it forms a brilliant red warning behind a disable truck or automobile. The two large disks of Lucite methyl methacrylate plastic molded in the...
Water flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Companys Belle, WV Works....
Flex recording meter showing the durability of PX Cloth, a modern bookbinding, at the former DuPont Exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center, New York City. The machine opened and closed the bock 3,600 times an...
Lamp end of the absorption system of the ultra violet photometer shows a mercury lamp with glass envelope removed. Radiation from the lamp is rendered roughly parallel by condensing lenses of quartz and the light is reflected down the absorption...
text on back: ""The powderman is William McDowell. He lived in Chicken Alley and worked in the yards until they closed. He then moved to the Forty Acres section of Wilmington and tended boilers at the Bancroft Mills."" Source: Letter dated August...
This plant housed machine tool builders. Previously Crossley & Davis in 1854, and Allen and Barr, Robert H. Barr & Company, and Hilles & Jones in 1870. After merging with other companies, they moved and closed the plant in 1927. Nearby was the...
The Silver family inherited the Red Lyon Inn property and closed it in 1837 when the present Railroad was diverted from the town. He was Postmaster and opened a store.
