This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Carrie Furnaces, Homestead Plant, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh District, Pennsylvania. View of cooling tank connected to some of the pig casting machines. Not all pig casters use this practice, most machines are quite long and...
Written on back of image: "August 27, 1937. To: F. Bromley: I am enclosing a print showing a method Rice, Barton and Fales have of supporting the pinion shaft, in order to get the print machines closer together. By this method they claim they are...
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. General view of wet wire drqwing room cleaning and coating house. Wires to be drawn on wet wire drawing machines are immersed in an acid...
Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Circular pig caster machine. One of the few curcular machines installed. Most pig machines were straight line units.
Resurfacing material is made by mixing neoprene latex with a special kind of water setting cement and an aggregate of finely crushed stone. Man with brush is applying a prime coat of neoprene latex to secure a tight bond to the old concrete....
Advertisement for sewing machine. Item is shaped like a leaf and reads "It's Durability Demonstrated It's Success Without a Parallel It's Sale 100,000 Machines Per Annum - The White is King."
Text on photo: "Visitors to the DuPont "Wonder World of Chemistry" exhibit at the New York World's Fair are shown how nylon stockings are knitted. The machines are standard hosiery knitting machines. In the background are the devices for seaming...
Typed caption: "Industries, banks, hotels and other railroad tickets offices order and receive their reservations directly from the new Ticket Sales and Service Bureau at Pennsylvania Station, New York, via the Intrafax system facsimile...
Caption on back: "In 1910, the du pont Company began its first non-explosives production with acquisition of the Fabrikoid Co., Newburgh, N. Y., makers of peproxylin coated textiles. The fabric coating machines pictured here and the men and women...
Advertising card for sewing machines manufactured by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company of Newark, New Jersey. Illustration shows a mother sitting at a sewing machine while children watch.
Table of Contents: Schools without walls; A doctor looks at football; Caged cats: a dixie delicacy; Caution: noise at work; A good grip on the situation; Trains worth traveling on; those magnificent driving machines; A smooth ride on metal shafts;...
Table of Contents: Picayune's do-it-yourself gang; Built for the long haul; The strategy of experimentation; Campaign at Dugan's Ditch; More than a bedtime story; Managing mountains of data; Saying goodbye to dynamite; Those magnificent ads on...
Table of Contents: Those magnificent flying machines; New generation of jets; Windows on the world's largest airport; Flying finish; An air of authority; A composite picture of the hornet; Reliable connections; Pin action; Smart lights; It's...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: What explosives users say about Dumorite; Glen Gardner smokestack safely brought to earth; Viscolac, a new economical lacquer; Advertising Pyralin toiletware; Tunneling under the Catskills for water; Boring machines and...
Table of Contents: Explosives, a civilizing force; Two new luxury liners; Harnessing the Muskegon in Michigan; Wall paper improved; Baby blasting machines; A new book house for children; The role of dynamite in Banana Land; Achieving the new...
Table of Contents: Costly indium now obtained by electrolysis; Made by men for menA modern cellini, Winold Reiss; Why you pay good money for moisture; Skeet, a year-round sport; The human hand was the first comb; To irrigate 80,000 acres of Idaho's...
Table of Contents: Traditions; Yes, ventilating shades; Sisty yards grew to six million; Men, machines, merchandise; Improved paints for industrial use; The story of a yarn; Piercing the Rockies for irrigation water; DuPont rayon at a century of...
