Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
A 100 foot control room at DuPont's Belle Works, near Charleston, West Virginia, enables operators to handle production equipment of nylon intermediate from central location. The product must be processed under speeds, temperatures, pressures and...
Experimental tunnel at DuPont Company's plant at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey is used by Eastern Laboratory technicians to duplicate conditions in underground mines. Tunnel is drilled 100 feet into face of a stone cliff. It enables researchers to...
Shooting laboratory blast on DuPont's Eastern Laboratory testing ground at Gibbstown, New Jersey enables technicians to study results with high speed motion picture camera, which takes pictures up to 8000 frames a second. Laboratory tests like this...
Nitroglycerin is made in nitrating house by mixing glycerin with nitric and sulfuric acids. This is most critical operation in explosives plant; equipment enables operator to drown an entire charge in water, if necessary.
An electric eye enables this ultraviolet photometer, at left, developed by scientist of DuPont's Rayon Technical Division and Electrochemicals Department, to see shadows of invisible vapors and gases in plant atmosphere. Here intake hose of...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
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: "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 on card: 'WHO ARE THE REAL SUPPORTERS OF PROHIBITION: The Bootleggers because they grow rich on it. The Anti-Saloon League members because it enables them to mind other men s business, to browbeat Congressmen and coerce the governors of the...
Handwritten on page: "Bell Fracture Table: Fracture table enables surgeon to place patient in most desirable position for applying cast or fracture pins."
