Standard wood and metal turning equipment, including hand fed lathes, turret lathes and automatic screw machines, are suitable for turning Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. A tool used for cutting steel will perform satisfactorily. It can be...
1301 Western Avenue; Architect: Rellheimer and Wagner; Date built: 1933; On back: The main concourse of the Union Terminal, built at a cost of $41,000,000, is semi-circular in shape, and the right and left hand sides of the dome contain the largest...
Table of Contents: Dynamite tests in England back in the sixties; An island paradise for game birds; The Catalina bird farm; Take care of your auto top; The apartment queen; America's modern art is exhibited; Submarine blasting in the Miami ship...
Danger of this sort awaits Disneyland summer guests boarding river launches for a bold adventure on the Jungle Cruise, one of the 54 major park attractions. Caution should be used because these two ill tempered jungle inhabitants are always looking...
Blast furnaces - 19th Century; Blast furnaces - 20th Century; Open top furnaces; Hand fed furnaces; Elevators; Skip hoists;Two pass stoves; Downcomers; Top works; Cast houses; High lines
Originally built in 1883 as a hand fed open top furnace. Demolished by 1934. Note skip hoist from base of elevator shaft to furnace top and lack of a bridge from elevator to furnace top. Most likely added in a eary 20th century rebuild.
Cutting machine, run by hand in the old days, cut the teeth of two combs at a time from a blank of pyroxylin plastic in Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company. Combs were then broken apart by hand.
Narrow gauge tracks and distinctive hand cars link DuPont's sprawling Belin Works black powder plant at Moosic, Pennsylvania. It is now the company's only black powder plant. Once the Explosives Department has 25 black powder plants in 13 states.
Written on back: "7 Anna Roobyan CIV. 10 Takohee Kushbuloodyan XCVII." Detail: "TAKOHEE KUSHBOOLOODIAN is a little girl who was nine years old in 1922. She has lost her parents in the recent troubles, but was rescued by Miss Salmond and taken...
In P.S. du Pont's hand on back of image: "Chestnut tree at Longwood taken by government inspector fall 1912. Photograph shows use of spray from above. Man in tree has spraying nozzle in hand pointing diagonally downward. The spray mist is seen...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Food industry; Packaging; Agriculture; Health care; Canoes; Shipping; Railroads; Veterinary medicine;
Table of Contents: A fresh look at Frito-lay; A hand in feeding the world; Water for a stone-bound island; It's a small wonder; The ultimate canoe conclusion; Car DUPX 17032, where are you; Transformer transformation; Untouched by human hands;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Gloves; Slippers; Narcotics; Drug addicts; Agriculture; Fashion industry; Textile industry; Galleries & museums; Convertible automobiles;
Table of Contents: A skilled hand in gloves; Staying clean; Sound design ideas; $1 spent is $4 earned; A pipe dream come true; This lightweight packs a big punch; Comfort 'round the calendar; Spirited views of the past; Rag top revival; News in...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Packaging; Milk; Plastics industry; Sport clothes; Textile industry; Stadiums; Paint industry; Police; Mammography; Physical fitness; Mining;
Table of Contents: Milk in a pouch: grade A; Froming new blendships with Cordura; New home for the White Sox; Fnishing with a partner; Remote control of sfety; Deflating escape attempts; An exam for living; Flexing plenty of muscle; Bagging gold;...
Table of Contents: In the palm of your hand; Bang, you're alive; A blend of fit and fashion; Flights of fancy; Artists in Africa; Built with care; On location; A corn crop, weather or not; Fuel of the future; News in brief.
