Text from back of image: "Photo shows R. F. Kohr, chief of the aeronautical section of the Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC who is the inventor of a great helium-saving device for Uncle Sam's airships, at work on one of his motors that he used...
Text from back of image: "Blaine M. Tuxhorn is shown with his synchronized ejector 'cannon' by which he and a co-pilot expect to load fuel on a Barling NB-3 monoplane while in full flight and remain aloft more than 60 hours. The container held by...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Fairchild cabin monoplane, from which engineers of the Bell Laboratories, recently conducted successful tests of a new means of plane ground telephone inter-communication. Newspapermen aloft in the ship...
Text from back of image: "This beacon to guide air pilots at night has been erected near Alexandria, VA, and has been successfully developed, according to Maj. Clarence M. Young, director of aeronautics, Dept. of Commerce. The beacon practically...
Text from back of image: "An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute...
Text from back of image: "A telescoping airplane wing which allows great variation in wing surface, is invented by Fred Ries of Compton, CA, above, with model of the ship. The wing when enlarged will enable a plane to lift a large load at slow...
Text from back of image: "Successful tests were conducted recently at the Farborough Experimental Station, Hampshire, England, with a new land catapult, the only device of its kind in the world. A giant bombing plane, weighing nine tons was...
Text from back of image: "F. W. Dunmore, of the United States Bureau of Standards, operating a model of the visual indicator which is used on airplanes as part of the radio beacon system now being developed at the Bureau's experimental flying field...
Text from back of image: "By an ingenious racket arrangement the landing wheels can be drawn up so that the machine can land on its pontoons on the water when the necessity arises. The 'Viking 11' recently gained the first prize in government...
Text from back of image: "Harry Doucett, inventor of 'Wings' a parachute designed to save both plane and pilot alike is shown in the above picture seated in the plane which will test out the giant parachute. The invention will be used by a large...
Text from back of image: "The largest propeller ever seen in the southwest arrived at California Institute of Technology, April 3rd, to be introduced in the huge test tunnel of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. It measures 14 feet, 11 inches...
Text from back of image: "America's first folding-wing monoplane, the Fairchild FC1-A, powered with a 200-HP Wright air-cooled whirlwind engine, three passengers and pilot are carried in a comfortable enclosed cabin at a speed of 120 MPH - with...
Text from back of image: "Senior and post-graduate students of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics entered the Fairchild-Caminez contest for the best design of a training plane designed around the Fairchild-Caminez 'cam' type of engine,...
Table of Contents: Better living through chemistry; Lucite shows the way to greater safety on the highways; How Gypsum Plaster was developed; For the June bride; Cementing the gap; a Son is born to the royal family of rayon; What's new; From cotton...
Table of Contents: The cavalcade of business; Candy becomes a hot seller; Modernizing the kitchen; Chemical developments improve dry-cleaning; Stone for chemical uses; Over the bounding main; What's new; Lucky jewels for the highways; Beauty and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Defense industry; Paint industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Agricultural research and some newer developments; Manpower for warpower; Food briquettes; Stars over Brandywine; Photo film by DuPont; Fats are needed; Paint research in wartime; Polyvinyl resins.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Nylon; Paint industry; Textile industry; Paper industry;
Table of Contents: Neoprene bounces ahead; Birthplace of nylon; Finished with dulux; New developments in coated fabrics; More and better low-cost paper; Fifty years of x-rays; War exhibit; DuPont traditions live on.
New York City Government to aid slum clearance with hundred million dollars-Orchard Street is not the worst tenement street in the lower East Side slum district. There are about two square miles of tenements like these. Work with Federal funds has...
