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...
Table of Contents: Battling hidden hunger; Wash-and-wear shirts; New caboose on the scouring train; Rivets for the jet age; Woodland paratroopers; Dacron joins the fire fighters; A matter of switchable parts; Passing the mop test; Driver education...
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Table of Contents: Tough guy plastic gets a partner; More work from work clothes; rope tricks for industry; Where the Digest grows; First teakettle in Texas; Foolproof fish tagging; Color on colored paper; Yes, you can dry clean your wash and wear;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Metallurgical industry; Paint industry; Textile industry; Paper industry; Tire industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Headquarters for hard-to-work metals; The way of the Eastwind; Fabrics made to throw away; Driving through the mountain; Where spick-and-span spinnings are born; Jet age elastomer gains on ground; Say it with colored paper; A...
NASAs Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise is shown mated atop its 747 carrier jet during the first captive test flight of the Orbiter February 18, 1977 over the Mojave Desert of Southern California. During the test flight the mated aircraft/Orbiter...
This is how the mammoth, 213,000 pound Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 the worlds largest and longest ranging jet bomber appeared a few minutes after takeoff at Muroc Air Force Base for its first transcontinental mission, a flight to Washington D.C....
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...
There are 887 armor piercing 20 mm cannon shells visible in this picture, hardly more than one third the completely load for the three pods (under Navy A4 jet) of the HIPEG gun system developed by Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division, Culver...
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...
This 2500 ton, half block long extrusion press is a feature of the new DuPont Metals Center at Baltimore, where commercial production of mill products of columbium metal and alloys recently got underway. The big press has unique heating and...
Typed caption: Nylon and rayon velvet, embellished with all over jet embroidery, was selected by Christian Dior for this short evening dress made with the restrained yet flattering bosom line so important in his current Paris collection. The fabric...
Typed caption: The fitted dinner coat is Jo Copeland of Pattullo's conception of winter after dark elegance. It relies heavily on the staling brilliance of the silver and black striped Bucol fabric of nylon and metallic yarn imported by Kandelaft....
Typed caption: The grand occasion dress at its most voluminous in a Hannah Troy creation in Whelan's point d'esprit and net of 100% nylon, with black velvet dots on the skirt and lavish jet embroidery on the bodice. The billowing skirt hangs from a...
