Table of Contents: Shipshape for a big catch; Fashionable reign for a festival queen; Airport for a cold country; Answering the need to know; A well-bent bow; America, be seated; Tonic for the gin; Producing prime cuts by computer; Emblems of an...
Table of Contents: The steel industry; Beauty captured in clay; Fancy neckwear for glass packages; Producing crushed stone; What's new; 50 years a cutler; Why paint a truck.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Furniture industry; Agriculture;
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Laser assisted machining is one of several advanced techniques being explored at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. to improve productivity and lower costs in the metalworking industry. In their experiments,...
Lammot du Pont's tabulation of the energy expended in producing soda powder at Hagley Yard. His calculations are based on the distances that raw materials and powder in various stages of completion moved throughout the yard.
Confirms shipping arrangements and insurance for a shipment of gunpowder. Also asks DuPont to test some of the powder they are producing under their contract.
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. Crimping machine producing a strand of 28 wires for use in revolving brushes for industrial and fine jewelry finishing
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.Illustration and drawing of a process producing billets of iron or steel. The page giving detaile ed information of the process is missing.
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Massachusetts restoration project. Demonstration of the forge hammer. Three hundred years ago, ironworkers cast iron sows (bars) at the blast furnace. In the forgess finery and chaffery furnaces the sows were heated...
Still busily rolling out nylon is this casting wheel, part of the original equipment constructed in 1937 to make some of the first nylon. Although two large yarn plants have since gone into operation, this original wheel (made over from an engine...
This DuPont Company plant producing nylon textile fibers is located at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since productions started in 1948, the plant's initial capacity has been tripled. Employment has increased from 400 at the start of operations to almost...
Third and newest of DuPont Company plants producing nylon textile fibers. Started production in 1948, the plant's initial capacity has since been tripled. Employment has increased from 400 at the start of operations to almost 3,000.
This nylon shafted screwdriver, developed during the war by a leading manufacturer of electronic equipment, is one of the first developments of nylon as a material for producing insulated alignment tools.
A protective tube of Lucite methyl methacrylate resin inserted between the glass metering tube and the metal case of rotameter used in devices for producing penicillin protects the metering tube from external blows and is positive guard against...
Controlled at this panel is equipment for refining the monomer and producing the polymer from which is made DuPont's unique industrial plastic-Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin. Able to withstand high temperatures and the most corrosive acids,...
Nordel is a new type of synthetic rubber resistant to sunlight, weathering and ozone determination. DuPont is producing it in a recently completed plant at Beaumont, Texas. The new rubber, a product of the company's pioneering research program, is...
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....
