This is one in a series of the first released wartime aircraft production photographs, showing the Boeing Aircraft Companys all out, 24 hour a day, seven day week effort to keep em flying. That this effort has succeeded is evidenced by the recent...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the Ferracute Machine Company records. Although the records date between 1872 and 1982, the bulk of the company records date after George Bass became President of the firm in 1937. Most
of these post 1937 papers relate to...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Textile industry; Cotton industry;
Table of Contents: The pulse of business; What Duco means to the automobile owner; Widening the century-old Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; After the washout in Wyoming; Intensive effort launched to make America once more a nation of riflemen;...
Letter from William du Pont to his father reporting the news that the faculty had decided not to let him continue at MIT and not to give him any special treatment in spite of the medical condition of his eyes that caused him to fail his...
Pensions; Correspondence; Military organizations; Soldiers; Legislators
Published copy of a letter Henry Algernon du Pont wrote to Charles Francis Adams defending the service of the 5th and 6th Regiments of Delaware Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. This letter was part of a larger effort by Henry A. du Pont to...
The huge tail span of the Constellation-first Lockheed to have three fins. Lockheed is famous for its many twin tailed airplanes. The three tail arrangement not only keep over all height to a minimum for convenience in fitting into hangars the...
General Electric is on the leading edge of a computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) revolution that promises to make the company vastly more productive. One facet of this is computer graphics, a technology that frees the design engineer...
Amusement, Sports etc. The Perfumed Wrestler (8) set of 10. Once in actions George reverts to normal wrestling technique and makes an effort to twist his opponent into a new shape.
Twenty-one year old Beatrice Vienna and over 450 of her follow employees now ride bicycles to work at Vega Aircraft Corporation to save essential rubber for the war effort. Married to aircraft worker, Art Vienna, Beatrice is one of the many women...
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 image: "Free Speech Doesn't Mean Careless Talk! This poster is published by the House of Seagram as part of its contribution to the National Victory Effort"
Text from image: "An enemy ear may be near -- Stop all loose talk to STRANGERS! This poster is published by the House of Seagram as part of its contribution to the National Victory Effort"
Text from image: "Which Bridge Do You Want? American labor can either build a bridge of ships to help Pershing's army or it can permit enemy agitators to stretch the hyphen of disloyalty as a bridge to aid our enemies. Co-operation and vigorous...
Text from image: "Loose Lips Might Sink Ships. This poster is published by the House of Seagram as part of its contribution to the National Victory Effort."
Text from image: "Stop Loose Talk to Strangers, enemy ears are alert. This poster is published by the House of Seagram as part of its contribution to the National Victory Effort."
