Lighter, stronger, more flexible fire hose made with an outer jacket of Dacron polyester fiber woven on an extruded neoprene tube gets into action faster, saving time when seconds may mean lives. Light weight (46 pounds for 100% Dacron, including...
An electric eye enables this ultraviolet photometer, at left, developed by scientist of DuPont's Rayon Technical Division and Electrochemicals Department, to see shadows of invisible vapors and gases in plant atmosphere. Here intake hose of...
Text from back of image: "Two hundred gallons of gasoline were transferred to the army tri-motored Fokker plane 'Question Mark,' 2500 feet above Dallas, TX, Dec. 20. The supply ship, a Douglass biplane, dropped a hose end while flying directly...
The method of jumping an electric car over a fire engine hose which may cross the track. A light metal bridge, large enough to span the hose is laid on the track, and the car passes over the obstruction without even the slightest difficulty....
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Table of Contents: Wash-and-wear goes automatic; Selling the world on Uncle Sam; Sales hit peak, earnings don't; It grows as it goes; New push on paper work; News on the home furnishings front; Pillar-Pac: customer-tailored container; Garden...
Table of Contents: Meet Mr. Nose; America's first zoo; Gateway to Pocahontas coal; Hose that laughs at the sun; Capitalism and all of us; Southward ho; Chariots for the oil fields; direct spinning; Of books and baseball; Tops in strops; New...
Using an air hose, a plate maker at Beck Engraving Company, Philadelphia, blows water off a wrap around Dycril printing plate. The plate will be ready, following a short drying time, for wrap around or letterset (modernized dry offset) printing....
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
This is DuPont's 15 million pound capacity plant for the manufacture of Hypalon synthetic rubber at Beaumont. Texas. Known chemically as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, Hypalon is a special purpose rubber that resists ozone and oxidation, the two...
DuPont Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol manufactured by the Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall NY in the above plant, finds many unique and varied uses, ranging from oil resistant flexible hose to a knitting size for nylon hosiery. This versatile...
View of a new ultra-violet photometer, developed by DuPont scientists, shows the two sampling tubes running between the box at left, which encloses the light source, and the housing at right for two photo-electric cells with their rheostats and...
Typed caption: "DuPont's new 15-million pound capacity plant for the manufacture of 'Hypalon' synthetic rubber went into production recently at Beaumont, Texas. Known chemically as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, 'Hypalon' is a special purpose...
