Text from back of image: "Grettir Algarsson of British Columbia expects to leave Liverpool, England in May on an attempt to reach the North Pole by plane. He will sail his supply ship to Spitzbergen and then drift with the ice pack, taking off by...
Table of Contents: Catering to the collectors; Coatings applied by current; Shortwave, long reach; Clearing the way for improvements; An achievement in velvet; Rehearsing the descent to mars; A towering shower of light; The almost invisible mark of...
Historians, in a not too distant future, are likely to point out that nothing this country has accomplished since the war is of more profound importance than our recent achievements in highway construction. Especially important the all weather...
Huge valves at Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas, control flow of gases and liquids under pressures that often reach fantastic levels. This DuPont plant makes, among other things, Alathon polyethylene resin, a plastic used in packaging film, dishes...
Insecticides packed in handy pressurized aerosol containers get the bug killing chemical into hard to reach crevices and corners, making insect control around the home a lot easier and less messy. A variety of formulations is available for...
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
Written on back: "Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water."...
Written on back: "Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water."...
Air pilots; Airplane cockpits; Airplanes; Transcontinental flights;
Text from back of image: 'Pelletier D'Oisy, French long distance aviator, after hopping off with a companion on an attempt to reach Karachi, India on June 14th, found his plane nosing downard at Le Bourget Field, and in a few minutes the plane...
Text from back of image: "The British unofficial round the world flight which will more or less compete with the American cruise got off from Southhampton recently in the 'Vulture' a hugh amphibian plane. First photo to reach this country shows the...
Text from back of image: "Grettir Algarsson of British Colmbia, Canada, expects to leave Liverpool, England in May on an attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane. He will sail by boat to Spitzbergen, drift into the ice pack and take off by plane...
Text from back of image: "The story of Lieutenant Locatelli's rescue from the icy waters of the North Atlantic has already been received. These first and exclusive photos tell the story pictorially of his success in reaching Reykjavik, Iceland,...
Text from back of image: "Top photograph shows the Montana 'cowboy' pilot beside the plane at Harbor Grace, N.F., shortly before the take-off. Lower view shows the actual start of the tragic flight in which Diteman hoped to reach Europe. Search for...
