This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Gasoline; Textile industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Textile tough guy; Tomorrow's managers; The latest in shotguns; Jackknife sculpture; Where's gasoline going; New look in books; Deep freeze skis; Tale of precipitous trail; Finishing school for fibers; titanium's talent scouts;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Safety; Roller skating; Railroad passenger cars; Fire prevention; Textile industry; Agriculture; Conservation of natural resources; Health care;
Table of Contents: Softening the blow; Rollerblade gives skaters a brake; Fire-safety training; What a difference a grade makes; A leg up on stains; The proof was in the counting; The oil is coming; Underlining patient care; A pressing concern for...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: What happened to business and why; Two new creations in Pyralin toiletware; A wonderful product is Fibersilk; Carnotite, a radium bearing ore; New du Pont product gives mines better lungs; Pyralin in the nation's workshops; Now...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Ammunition; Mining;
Table of Contents: What of the new year; Duco becomes a movie actor; Safeguards for the army of blasters; Suited for a rainy day; The drums of peace; Saving a city from flood waters; Keeping pace with ideals; A giant cliff gives way; Notes on...
Table of Contents: DuPont announces Nylon; Personality in Christmas gifts; Lichens from the land of the midnight sun; Stars in candlelight; Christmas comes to Madrid (New Mexico); And now safer safety glass; Fair doings; Style for everybody; Let's...
Campaigns & battles; Artillery (Troops); Artillery (Weaponry); Military officers
Henry Algernon du Pont's account of the Battle of New Market, Virginia. Du Pont describes his role in the battle and gives his opinions on the battle's outcome.
This photograph which is the most remarkable marine picture ever made stands alone in a class by itself. It shows a condition at sea never before pictured by the camera. That the crew of the sinking vessel ever escaped at all is as remarkable as...
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...
Max Ennes, painter and handyman of Cheboygon MI and wife, Lila. "I won't sign that contract because it gives them perpetual dictatorship over me and my 3 kids."
Screw machine production increased by new Jones & Laughlin "E" Steel. Production of nuts, studs, fittings and other machined parts on equipment such as this six spindle automatic screw machine has been increased from 10 to 25 per cent when Jones &...
Dredging; Laborers; Machinery; Construction equipment;
A 15 cu. yard dipper used on one of the big dipper dredges at Panama. A platform has been suspended half way down this dipper and thirty-four men have been grouped on this platform. This gives you an idea of the immense size of these dippers. We...