Table of Contents: Chemistry aids agriculture; Gasoline flows under a river; Rolling along with Armco; McGraw manufactures chests; From ice chests to iced refrigerators; DuPrene conquers sunlight; Quality marches on; At home on wheels; Modern...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
Women; Assembly-line methods; Aircraft industry; Radio industry;
Women are being used in increasing numbers on the assembly lines of the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of Aircraft's Accessories Corporation, as this photograph will testify. According to word from the company, the number of women employed in the...
Nylon in still another application replaces war restricted animal bristles, this time as the frictions to provide tension on yarn in textile shuttles as shown above. Shuttles manufactures now prefer nylon bristles because they last two to three...
Acrylonitrile, a chemical intermediate used in the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, is made in this Explosives Department production unit at the DuPont Company's Beaumont, Texas plant. Reflecting the latest developments of chemical technology,...
Rising like a giant stack topped vat this solvent scrubbing tower, located on the site of DuPont's Camden, South Carolina plant for the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, recovers certain chemicals used in the Orlon process. Completed in 1952,...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
The DuPont Company's manufactures Mylar polyester film, at a plant at Circleville, Ohio. The five story open construction chemical building rises in the background and the manufacturing area, offices and laboratory are in the low brick structure in...
An orchid made of Plastacele cellulose acetate plastic is shown here. The flower is tinted to match nature's delicate colors and looks fresh and attractive after repeated wearings. Plastacele, a DuPont product, is sold to manufactures of finished...
An orchid made of Plastacele cellulose acetate plastic is shown here. The flower is tinted to match nature's delicate colors and looks fresh and attractive after repeated wearings. Plastacele, a DuPont product, is sold to manufactures of finished...
An air view of the DuPont Company's plastic plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Called the Washington Works, the plant has grown steadily since the start up in 1948. As a result, well over 1,000 new jobs have been created. The plant manufactures...
An aerial view of the Elastomers Chemicals Department plant at Beaumont, Texas. Here the DuPont Company makes methionine, an amino acid used a s poultry feed supplement. The value of a ton of good feed to a broiler grower can be increased $7 to $10...
Neoprene is manufactured around the clock in this DuPont plant at Louisville, Kentucky. The company sells the crude neoprene to rubber product manufacturers who combine it with other ingredients to make a variety of finished goods. When DuPont...
Bonded to building materials, DuPont's new 'Tedlar' PVF film gives them a useful, low maintenance outdoor life of many years without refinishing. Here, a DuPont salesman, right, check tests in Pre-Finish Metal plant in Chicago. In the building...
Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plant in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at...
Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories occupy an area of about 600 acres at...
Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plants in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories occupy an area of about 600 acres at...
Crystalline aggregates of silicon look somewhat like short rough jack straws. The DuPont Company manufactures silicon as a pure element in this form. In this photo, as indicated by the short ruler, the 'spikes' appear about twice their actual size.
