A few minutes after this photograph was snapped these 33 sturdy Vultee BT-13 Basic Trainers, piloted by U.S. Army fliers in foreground were roaring down the 4000 foot runway at 10 second intervals for delivery to Moffett Field, California basic...
Viscose, salt crystals, strong fibers and coloring materials form the sponge mass shown here. This dough-like materials is then pressed into molds and coagulated.
Mass pigmentation of textile fibers at DuPont's New Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here single end spinning machine is used for making viscose rayon pigmented with a new fade resistant 'Monastral' red. In this technique, color is put into the...
This picture shows silicon and what researchers expect it to do. The pure element, in the form manufactured by DuPont, is below the ruler. Before it can be used it must be melted down to a solid mass, as at lower left and traces of other elements...
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Mass mailing of the Larchmont Yacht Club signed by William Murray, the club's treasurer, to its members informing them of the issuing of debenture bonds for erecting and furnishing an addition to the club house and offers the opportunity for...
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...
Gerhard Lang and Andrew Campbell of CorpTech, Wellesley, Mass. which developed a database of high tech companies, found that service firms without hard assets can run into problems raising start up capital. They wound up with a corporate partnering...
Gerhard Lang and Andrew Campbell of CorpTech, Wellesley, Mass. which developed a database of high tech companies, found that service firms without hard assets can run into problems raising start up capital. They wound up with a corporate partnering...
This unusual view of the ice bridge at Niagara Falls was obtained from a Bell Aircraft helicopter hovering near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Ice covered rocks below the American Falls add an artistic touch and the Cave of the Winds (right)...
High quality mass production results from industry's investment in special purpose machines like that shown above, which drills the entire oil system in an automobile crankshaft in one continuous operation.
American Steel & Wire Company, subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. Automatic conveyor being loaded with coils to immerse in a acid bath.
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. High grade high carbon wires leaving a M. H. Patenting furnace and entering the molten lead quench bath before entering the take up reels
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. Bull-block used in making a single reduction on very heavy steel rod . Plain carbon and alloy steel wire for the fabrication of heavy bolts...