A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Standard wood and metal turning equipment, including hand fed lathes, turret lathes and automatic screw machines, are suitable for turning Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. A tool used for cutting steel will perform satisfactorily. It can be...
Out of an inexhaustible source of raw material- coal, air and water- chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze solutions, perfume bases and plastics....
Text from back of image: 'One minute Maurice Drouhin, French pilot, and Charles A. Levine, are firm friends, and the next minute another argument is on. When this photo was taken, evidently everything was O.K., but last reports have Drouhin and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Shoe industry; Computers; Health care; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: the push for alternatives; Fit for court battles; Making movies by the minute; Clearly, a winner; The ultimate in Corian; Dog-sled diplomacy; Runny harder and leaner; The gift of life; New warrier in a turf battle; Managing a...
Table of Contents: An important development; Conowingo, a new power giant; The Minute Man, new style; Belting that lives longer; Hosiery, old and new; The sport's the thing; Now Duco clear for home uses; Moultrie versus mosquitoes; Let's go...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Defense industry; War relief;
Table of Contents: The cavalcade of chemistry; Chemistry in this hour; When every minute counts; Conservation of materials; Chemistry and civilian needs; Food; Clothing; Shelter; Safety; Health; The present serves our future.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; War work; Defense industry; Libraries; Camouflage (Military science);
Table of Contents: Chemicals from salt work for victory behind the scenes; With the colors; 1,000 feet per minute; Books or bunsen burners; Tow lines for air transport; Propellers for mustangs; What's new.
Richard Dix takes a minute off during filming of "The Shock Punch" a Paramount picture directed by Paul Sloane, to see the scenery of lower New York. Part of the Woolworth Building and a bit of Brooklyn Bridge are on the extreme right with the big...
The 100% motorized modern army depends upon motor vehicles for supplies, transportation and movement of gun units and war materials. Photo shows some of the vehicles of the 26th infantry being refueled during maneuvers at Pine Camp, New York....
Shown here are two huge ore unloading machine which will serve the new coal and ore dock at Toledo to be formally opened on June 2 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. Each of these machines is capable of unloading...
Dipper of a surface coal mining shovel dwarfs a mechanic, left, as it lifts 140 cubic yards-about 210 tons-of earth and rock. Once every minute the shovel removes this much overburden, about three railroad carloads, from above a coal seam near...
The rear gunner of the Martin bombers are also protected by Plexiglas enclosures which can be revolved mechanically to train multiple machine guns at planes attacking from the rear. Resembling the dome of an astronomical observatory the enclosure...
Donald Desky, noted industrial designer retained by The Travelers Insurance Companies to create its exhibit for the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair, examines a model of one of the scenes which will make up the show. Visitors to the exhibit will take...
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...
This aircraft spool molded of FM-1 nylon is enlarged to seven times its actual size. Despite its tiny dimension, it possesses usual strength and flexibility. Note the minute opening.
A flyer block of nylon, used in textile machinery, travels as fast as 15,000 revolutions per minute without lubrication. Attached to a spindle in the spinning operation, the flyer clock holds wires which provide necessary tension to the yarn. The...
While hunting in 1800, Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, a young French immigrant, discovered that American gunpowder did not compare in quality or price with that imported from Europe. Du Pont, left, a student of Lavoisier in France, discusses the...
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, founder of the DuPont Company and a student of the great French chemist, Lavoisier, shows a workman the art of making powder in 1802. Scene is from the motion picture, The Du Pont Story, 72 minute history of the company.
Tom Cooper, left, a mechanically-minded farm neighbor, becomes the first employee of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, when the founder launched the company in 1802. Scene is from the motion picture, The Du Pont Story, 72 minute history of the company.
