Redstone launch vehicle carrying a boilerplate model of the Project Mercury spacecraft launched at 12:30 pm from Cape Canaveral, FL today appeared to fly its preplanned trajectory. The vehicle reached a peak altitude of 115 statute miles, a maximum...
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...
Table of Contents: New hues for ancient craft; Probing mighty missile motors; Bearings with lifetime lubrication; New armor for a bowling pin; Swimsuits you'll be seeing; New course; for the Coosawattee; Fence-to-fence carpeting; Keeping cool at...
Table of Contents: Cool coatings for colorful craft; The fantastic furniture fabric; The added touch of luxury; Giving cargo losses the air; Taming the tempermental Sandy; Palette that promises precision; Easing the squeeze in schools; New...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Lumber industry; Fashion industry;
Table of Contents: Shedding light on some old problems; The bright craft of making white kraft; Sartorial styles for the seventies; New life for a model highway; Taking on He-Man assignments; Projecting the right image; Containers for a worldwide...
Table of Contents: Balanchine's ballet, backstage; The protection network; Craft netting creations, part II; Reviewing a baghouse decision; What's happened to the workaday wardrobe; Underground Paris: a premium on safety; Shoe design takes a giant...
Table of Contents: Human wants and the chemical industry; The rifleman's tribe increases; New craft with Cellophane; The national cotton show; Chemistry and the south; The call of the sea; In service overseas; Combs on the campus; Midget racing;...
Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
While it would be possible to fly the Lockheed Constellation across the country non-stop in less than 9 hours, in actual scheduled service-allowing for one stop-it coud carry this group from Los Angeles to New York in less than 10 hours. This...
Believe it or not, but this is the deck of a boat- The Crescent City- which left Detroit this week with 527 motor cars aboard, the largest single shipment of any one make of car ever to leave Detroit via water. The shipment was made by the Plymouth...
Art and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products....
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: "A type of dirigible used by the Italian Navy for scount duty along the Adriatic. Many ships have been saved by the quick work of these dirigibles which have discovered Teuton U. boats and flashed a warning to the...
Text from back of image: "This photo is unusual in that it shows all three types of light-than-air craft in the same view. It was taken, recently, at the Naval Air Station at San Diego."
Text from back of image: "The dirigible ZR 3 built by the Zeppelin Company in Germany for America, made its trial trip over Lake Constance, Germany a few days ago. This proved satisfactory and the great vessel will leave for America shortly. The...
Text from back of image: "The dirigible ZR 3 built by the Zeppelin Company in Germany for America, made its trial trip over Lake Constance, Germany, a few days ago. This proved satisfactory and the great vessel will leave for America shortly. The...
