The glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces...
Glass container designers of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's packaging research division at Toledo, OH work with less eyestrain in this new all glass windowless structure where soft, diffused daylight is transmitted through translucent but not...
Oddities in the news: A robin in Newark, Ohio feathers its nest with threads of pure glass and in Toledo demonstration reveals that a single pane of tempered plate glass bends but does not break under the weight of a three-ton elephant. An now,...
Handwritten on back: "On the left, a large flask with brass filter (the glass is broken, but has been repaired by the de Chazelles). On the right, a flask in blue glass. Each is mounted on a small ring wrapped in linen."
A step in the manufacture of Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here Butacite is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his requirements for windshields and...
Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged exposure to heat, light and...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
Lucie Renaudot of Paris makes interesting use of glass and metal in boudoir furniture for the modern home. Note the mirror glass as a table top and sides for the dressing table. Glass tubing is also used as supports for these two pieces, with...
Inventory for Bellevue, William du Pont, Jr.'s home estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The inventory includes lists of china and glass in various locations throughout the house.
These scenes might have been taken in any textile factory; actually the thread is glass and the fabric being woven is fireproof, moisture proof, vermin proof, and stronger, fiber for fiber, than hard steel.
Art and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products....
Hendrick writes to confrim Milne's receipt of the wire. He also mentions that he uses a 9 1/4 inch water glass rather than the standard 6 inch glass. Hendrick wants to know if the boiler must be fired up by torch. He does not favor that...
