The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
The process by which musk is formed in the body of the musk deer is recapitulated in the making of synthetic musk by the chemist. It is probably that natural musk is formed in the animal by transformation of fats or oils. Here, treated castor oil...
Schoolboys of San Francisco lined up for inspection in front of their tents at the training camp at Manzanita, CA. This camp was formed exclusively for the school children of San Francisco and the bay cities. The purpose of this camp is to teach...
Visitors marvel at the mirror-like qualities of deep blue Crater Lake, Oregon. Rangers are on hand to tell of such wonders as Crater Lake's 2000 foot depth, its 20 square mile surface the lack of either visible source or exit for its waters and the...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
In the pouring of open hearth furnaces, molten steel flows from a huge ladle in ingot molds. Later, the ingots are formed into sheets and bars for manufacture into thousands of industrial products. (Photographed at the Rouge Plant of Ford Motor...
Formed halves of the bomber nose are cemented together with acrylic resin, the same resin of which the Plexiglas sheets are originally made, Here a workmen is trimming the edges of a bombardiers door end the gun-mount hole so that the necessary...
Haddam Neck, Connecticut-Shown is the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant at Haddam Neck, Connecticut the largest operating commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. The 575000 electrical kilowatt facility, started up commercially in...
Lammot discusses the politics of obtaining a permit for a magazine and reports on the Hazard Powder Company's success with this process. He has recently formed a partnership of Rodmond & Gibbons and reports on the powder market.
Gibbons reports that he has formed a partnership with Robert Lammot. Also reports on the powder market and includes a news clipping about the Hazard Powder Company.
Many of the qualities of nylon which make it so outstandingly suitable for brush bristles of all kinds, sutures, fishing leaders and tennis strings are dependent upon the step of drawing or stretching the filament after it has been formed by the...
Many of the qualities of nylon which make it so outstandingly suitable for brush bristles of all kinds, sutures, fishing leaders and tennis strings are dependent upon the step of drawing or stretching the filament after it has been formed by the...
Injection molded from FM-1 nylon, these spools for electric coils actuating aircraft instruments resist operating temperatures which distort other thermoplastics. Their 0.012-inch wall thickness is far less than required with other molding powders...
One of the huge wheels on which base for DuPont cellulose acetate photographic film is formed at Parlin, New Jersey plant. The wheel shown here is in the shop for replating. In the casting house, liquid dope is flowed on the surface of the wheel....
Casting machine at DuPont's Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey showing chamber in which cellulose acetate film base is treated and dried after being formed on casting wheel. Operators are observing film through strategically placed safety...
These plastic bowls for fruits, flowers and salads are molded from DuPont's new plastic material, patterned Lucite acrylic resin sheets. Surface patterns of varied designs are formed into the light, shatter resistant sheets. Equipment for...
These plastic bowls for fruits, flowers and salads are molded from DuPont's new plastic material, patterned Lucite acrylic resin sheets. Surface patterns of varied designs are formed into the light, shatter resistant sheets. Equipment for...
