Military organizations; Clothing & dress; Military uniforms
List of materials needed to make uniforms for the members of "Company A." This list includes the names of men in the company along with the exact amount of material needed to make their uniform. "Company A" is most likely a militia company called...
Exact weights are stamped on every shipping container of Orlon acrylic fiber before leaving the DuPont Company's May plant near Camden, South Carolina.
Exact weights are stamped on every shipping container of Orlon acrylic fiber before leaving the DuPont Company's May plant near Camden, South Carolina.
Exact weights are stamped on every shipping container of Orlon acrylic fiber before leaving the DuPont Company's May plant near Camden, South Carolina.
This dealer display model washing machine developed by The Nineteen Hundred Corporation, of St. Joseph, Missouri, allows prospective customers to observe the entire washing operation. The tub of the machine is made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin...
Here an operator mixes a sample of shade ordered by car manufacturers. The mixing of large batches is based on this sample. To achieve the exact tint requires a sharp eye and long experience.
One of the DuPont Company's major contributions to the finishes industry was the invention of 'Duco' lacquer. Its quick drying characteristic revolutionized the painting of automobile bodies by reducing the required time from many days to a few...
A 'quartz fingernail' is used by DuPont chemists to determine how hard a paint film is. The device measures the weight necessary to drive the rounded end of a quartz rod a given distance into the film. In this manner the exact hardness of the paint...
A 'quartz fingernail' is used by DuPont chemists to determine how hard a paint film is. The device measures the weight necessary to drive the rounded end of a quartz rod a given distance into the film. In this manner the exact hardness of the paint...
The exact temperature of kilns used for firing ceramic colors during manufacture is registered on a series of pyrometers, permitting scientific control at the Electrochemicals Department.
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
An instron tester, capable of exerting force of 10,000 pounds, is used to determine carcass strength and record exact force required to push plunger through wall of fully inflated tired. Equipment is part of facilities for study of processing...
Text from back of image: "Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, the American airmen, took off at three o'clock in the morning from Southport (Lancashire) sands in their plane 'Lady Peace' for their return flight across the Atlantic to New York. Photo...
Typed caption: "Tire plunger test: An instron tester, capable of exerting force of 10,000 pounds, is used to determine carcass strength and exact force required to push plunger through wall of fully inflated tire. Equipment is part of facilities...
Photographer's caption: "The sculpture and Italian marble colunnade in the backgroud are an exact half-size replica of the shrine erected at Omaha Beach as a tribute to the servicemen who participated in the WWII invasion of Europe."
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A model of an interior section is assembled in order to acquire a better perspective of the relationship of elements. All of the models of the Seagram skyscraper are...
