The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
From title page: "Industrial History of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: a complete survey of American Industries, embracing Agriculture and Horticulture; Including the Cultivation of Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat; The...
Table of Contents: Cronar grows up; Housing a new drill in nylon; Foams for the reefers; why they insulate with Titanate; Testing ten thousand tires; 2-in-1: a prime poly for produce; Traveling with a tape recorder; Fabrics cover 50 years; Taking...
Table of Contents: What the Chemist is Doing for our Industries; Science of Quarrying Rock with Explosives; The Arlington Plant; Making Dynamite; Destroying Dynamite; The Finishing and Care of Hardwood Floors; Make Friends with a Rifle; Leather...
Table of Contents: DuPont's Works;Safe Explosives for Coal Mining; The Newburgh Plant; The Evolution of the Book; Shooting at School; Doors of the Past and Present; Paint as a Protector and Beautifier; The Relations of DuPont American Industries to...
Table of Contents: Sketching the background; Sweep of the years; Resume of black powder history; Old black powder days; High spots of DuPont high explosives history; Forty-five years ago; Importance of chemistry in DuPont industries; DuPont...
Table of Contents: New art at the Audac show; Science joins the sales force; Something new in quarry practice; Luxurious cotton meshes, frosted with rayon; New weaves in rabbit-soft, cool rayon; Boeing wings over the west; Old Swede's bureau...
Charles M Schwab, left, Chairmen of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was among the more than 200 industrial executives and business leaders who attended a luncheon given by Alfred P. Sloan Jr Chairmen of General Motors, right, in New York on Monday...
Aerial view of Kaiser Steel mill and new industrial area surrounding area at Fontana, CA. Image accompanied a press release by The Perrett Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Southern California's fastest growing industrial area is developing around the...
Remember playing ring around the rosey when you were just so high? Here is a space age resemblance -technicians wrapping up a 30 foot furlable space antenna at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, in Sunnyvale CA. (Clean room suits are work to...
The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...
The chemical being poured and the foams surrounding the scientist in the Elastomers Laboratory at Chestnut Run are made form DuPont's new organic isocyanates. Customer combine the isocyanates with other chemicals to produce urethane foams, which...
Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastics more efficiently. The plant makes...
Control broad at DuPont's plastic plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastic more efficiently. The plant makes Teflon...
Work soles made of DuPont's synthetic rubber, neoprene are popular in many industries, but especially so among roofers. They are surefooted, abrasion resistant and long wearing. Neoprene crepe is much more resistant to oxidation than natural rubber...
