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...
Hendrick asks again that the company take the boiler and burners that he and his men could not get to work satisfactorily off his hands. Hendrick writes that his engineers are as good engineers as is going, and they could not fix the problem of...
The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
Worries about Delaware Breakwater being unprotected from Southern ships, also two ships for sale in Philadelphia, and one could be fitted at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Hendrick inquires how soon after receiving an order could the company send a set of 2 1/2-inch non-collapsible automobile tires and what the price would be.
Hendrick writes to confirm that Wannamaker keeps a stock of automobiles. If that is so, Hendrick expresses his interest in a small steam runabout that could be delivered right away.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Soybeans; Agriculture; Baked products; Doughnuts; Baseball; Restaurants; Protective clothing; Fire fighting;
Table of Contents: The little car that could; In tune with the times; Easy as pie; Last great places; They're on the ball; A new gold standard; When the room hits your eye; Protection under pressure; Where there's smoke, there's danger; News in...
Table of Contents: It's so fine; A discovery farmers can take to the bank; The big engine that could; In living color; The gardener's cutting edge; On the wagon; It's what's inside that counts; Wind, rain and wreckage; Smooth sinking; News in brief.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Computers; History; Paint industry; Automobile industry;
Table of Contents: Natural factories; Very small could be very big; Enzymes on a grand scale; DuPont: the enlightened organization; On the road to better automotive coatings; Changing the way we see things.
Letter from William's sister, Ellen, to William informing him of the death and funeral of her son (William's nephew), Henry du Pont Irving. She also expresses her wish that William could have been there.
Honest to goodness, this is really the largest commercial building in America. Merchandise Mart has four million square feet of floor space. Tower section alone is as large as most office buildings. If built up like most of the recent setback...
Toby Wing, screen and stage star, watches herself in the television receiving set as she performs before the new television equipment in the Philco Radio television station here at which the equipment was tested. The receiving set was brought into...
County committee of the AAA, representing the War Food Administration, have arranged for around 20 auctions this fall to help the Defense Plant Corporation move to farmers used tools, equipment and supplies that could not be moved successfully...
Nation's First-Intended to show the rigid interior bracing and such features as the working mechanism of the no draft ventilation system employed in the "unisteel" turret top body by Fisher, the first transparent motor car ever constructed in the...
The rear gunner of the Martin bombers are also protected by Plexiglas enclosures which can be revolved mechanically to train multiple machine guns at planes attacking from the rear. Resembling the dome of an astronomical observatory the enclosure...
I was sent to attend the first drill of the Womens Independent Rifle Club, of Cincinnati, the members of which are training themselves to guard our homes against the enemy if we go away to war. Go said the editor and find out what sort of a...
Citizens are preparing for any eventuality. If you could have seen the citizen soldiers drill on Governors Island with their wooden rifles you would be convinced that the men are getting ready. Most of them are pretty near prepared now. Some of...
