The nation's bill for glass breakage in street lamp globes, ticket windows, washroom windows and other public installations, may be reduced by DuPont's development of patterned sheets of shatter resistant Lucite acrylic resins. Sections for office...
Table of Contents: What's next in business; New development in ditching with dynamite; Pyradiolin, for radio panels; Good air anywhere; What turns green first in the spring; Smoothing the way in Wyoming; C. &. O. needed more yard room; High cost of...
Aim ray at absenteeism: "Industrial Ultraviolet Ray Solarium", aimed at reducing absenteeism in war plants, is official name for the merry-go-round system of artificial sunlight irradiation (above) introduced by the Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.,...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
French Mule Spinning-The stock is taken from the drawing department on packages know as "Roving" and the drawing continues until the twisted thread is reduced to the size required. The temperature in this room is probably 95 or 100.
Deeply upholstered, fully reclining and reversible chairs, a sound-proofed cabin exceeding 6 feet in height and wide unobstructed aisles are among the interior features of the Luxury Airliner which has just been put into service by Transcontinental...
Correspondence regarding the arrival of the "Wild Pigeon" shipment. The "Jacob Badger" has no arrived, despite having been out at sea for 120 days. The powder market will hopefully improve now that the stock has been reduced.
Correspondence regarding a telegram to Ashburner & Co. sent by the now opened Persian Gulf route, the saltpetre market, and a rumor that the Indian Export Duty on Saltpetre will not be reduced.
Excerpt from the July 1950 issue of The DuPont Fabtonian magazine from DuPont's Newburgh, New York Fabrics Plant. Cover image features emloyees Julius M. R. Linehart and Thomas G. Stringer. Articles include: 40 Years with DuPont; Job Security;...
American Steel and Wire Company, Donora Works, Donora, Pennsylvania. Wire is drawn down through a hole in a hardened steel plate and reduced to the finished size
Bundling of small packages for shipping economies through reduced weight is provided in this DuPont cellophane wrapped assembly of six boxes. Cellophanes visibility also eliminates the need for printing identification labels.
First step in the manufacture of DuPont nylon yarn begins in evaporators where the moisture content of the nylon salt solution, which is received in tank cars from intermediates plants, is reduced.
Shower curtains and even bath towels are among the engineered fabrics containing nylon in The Nylon Suite, a new deluxe feature of the Hotel DuPont. The shower curtains are made of an all nylon taffeta woven by the Duplan Corporation. In exhaustive...
First step in the manufacture of DuPont nylon yarn begins in evaporators where the moisture content of the nylon salt solution, which is received in tank cars from intermediates plants, is reduced.
After wood pulp for cellophane is steeped in caustic solution, it is reduced to fine particles in a shredder. Here, operator empties the shredded pulp into bin. Other chemicals will be added to make a viscous liquid which is cast into the clear...
Chemicals are added to the woodpulp for cellophane in barattes and the material is mixed further here. Shredder has already reduced woodpulp to fine particles for this process.
A dozen fresh eggs, at left, are reduced by dehydrating to volume indicated in center container and weigh only five ounces. Compression at sub-freezing temperatures, in process developed by Auto Ordnance Company of Greenwich, Connecticut cuts the...
Compression of dehydrated food to save cargo space has been proposed for Lend-Lease and Army shipments. At left are nine pounds of raw potatoes. At lower right, in exhibit container, is equivalent amount after shredding and dehydrating have reduced...
