A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Letter from Ethicon Suture Laboratories Incorporated to its customers regarding the company's inability to produce tennis racket gut strings due to its focus on war-time and post-war production of surgical sutures.
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
New type sleeper trailer of light weight stainless steel construction for travel in Syrian desert. Constructed by the Edward G. Budd Company of Philadelphia for the Nairn Transport Company Ltd. The trailer utilizes the same principles of...
New type sleeper trailer of light weight stainless steel construction for travel in Syrian desert. Constructed by the Edward G. Budd Company of Philadelphia for the Nairn Transport Company Ltd. The trailer utilizes the same principles of...
Colors incorporated in the plastic faces of this new type of outdoor sign makes painting unnecessary. Rich blue letters mounted on a bright yellow background are complemented by the flowing red of the arrow. Lucite acrylic resin eliminates shadows...
A Pigments Department research metallurgist at DuPont's Experimental Station is manipulating a water cooled electrode which extends into a vacuum melting chamber. An electric arc between the electrode and the metal charge fuses the contents within...
New soap perfume sin the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno about 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are placed in the trough. Nitroglycerin is added from the containers shown on the cart at the...
This item is a guide to primary material in the Hagley Museum and Library. For research access to the contents of this collection, contact research@hagley.org or 302-658-2800.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Written on back: "Setting #1 is a traditional living room which has been updated with today's fashionable colors. Architectural interest is achieved with walls panelled in antique pine from the house of the late Myron Taylor. The floor has been...
Written on back of image: "Here various dyestuffs are mixed with the proper chemicals and incorporated into a printing paste to be applied to the cloth by means of the engraved copper roller."
Written on back: "With the famous United Nations Building in the background, Mr. Charles Lukens Huston, Jr., left, President of the 150-year-old Lukens Steel Company of Coatesville, Penna., presents the original copy of the Coatesville Declaration,...
