25 of these giant new type steam locomotive for freight service are being built by the PRR to draw wartime trains of 125 loaded cars at speeds in excess of 50 mph. The new engine develops more power in its working range than any steam locomotive...
Formed in one piece, this popcorn vending machine top of Lucite acrylic resin incorporates many improvements over the old type fixture. Measuring 34 inches wide, 27 inches deep and 14 inches high, the top is one of the largest one-piece, die-formed...
retouched image. written on back of print: "Studebaker '53" stamped on back of print: "Design Credit Raymond Loewy Associates 488 Madison Avenue New York 22, New York" note afixed to print: "Low, sweeping contours of European styling are...
Armco Steel Corporation, Ashland, Kentucky, Five stand, four high tandem cold rolling finish mill for coils up to 62 inches wide and ranging in thicknesses from .014 through .10 inches
This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Textile industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Silicon's slice of the future; Taming a chemical wildcat; Three new plastics; The birth of a TV special; Dust misses a blind date; Industry's answer man; Pretty beer salesmen; New arrival at Idlewild; Enough for a billion feet; A...
A navy F2H-2P Banshee photo plane equipped with a forward firing aerial mapping and reconnaissance camera installed on its nose, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9). It banks in its approach, levels off, gets a cut from the landing...
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...
A 1910 model Buick towers over the low slung XP-300, a "dream" car built by Buick for experimental purposes. The XP-300 is the latest creation of Charles A. Chayne, seated, vice president of General Motors in charge of the engineering staff. He is...
Its 23 feet and 7 inches to the top of the Lockheed Constellations triple fin. Two TWA hostesses and a feminine ticket agent are shown on the ladder. Reading from top to bottom are Hostess Jean Mellby, Ticket Agent Isabelle Stevens, and Hostess...
Chicopee MA-Spring is here and hard on its heels is the season for baseball, Americas favorite sport. Already the factories that manufacture baseballs are busily turning out a supply to meet the demand. These photographs, made at the A.G. Spalding...
Thickness of DuPont's new Dycril printing plates is checked at company's first full scale plant for the new plates at Parlin, New Jersey. Thickness of completed flexible plates must fall within a range of plus or minus .0005 inches in order to meet...
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....
Six types of photopolymer printing plates are now available from DuPont's first plant for Dycril at Parlin, New Jersey. These include the large unexposed plate in the background. This and two other types of thin flexible plates, as shown, are now...
The story of the economy of polythene as a packaging material was told at the DuPont Company's exhibit at the National Packaging Exposition, Polythene is economical because it takes only one pound of it to make 15,000 square inches of 2 millimeter...
Mylar polyester film emerges at the end of the manufacturing operation in a continuous sheet and is wound up in large mill rolls, which are later slit on machines like this to customer's specifications in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film...
DuPont's Mylar polyester film emerges in a continuous sheet at the end of the manufacturing process at the Circleville, Ohio plant. It is then wound on large mill rolls, which are later slit in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film is carried...
