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Table of Contents: Big Boom in Trapshooting; Prosperity Insurance; Popularizing a Sport Through Advertising; Trapshooting Club Secretary Blasts Cellar With Red Cross; Wasted Ammunition; National Advertising of Fabrikoid; Catskill Aqueduct an...
McCall informs du Pont of a powder sale to the U.S. Indian Department and lists the terms of the sale. McCall also requests information about a shipment of sugar registered with customs.
The exact temperature of kilns used for firing ceramic colors during manufacture is registered on a series of pyrometers, permitting scientific control at the Electrochemicals Department.
A stroboscopic camera traces the movements of a man who stacks 50 pound bags. The amount of energy needed to this job is registered on the recording device. Such tests point the way to improvements in job techniques which will reduce fatigue and...
The same kind of work planning which makes jobs easier in DuPont plants also reduces fatigue in DuPont households. Dave Gillon, of the company's Chambers Works, registered for the stroboscopic camera the motions he used in pounding a hoop around...
Highly ingenious laboratory tools and instruments help DuPont scientists uncover many secrets of nature ordinarily hidden from the human senses. This 'Breath meter' is so sensitive that mere blowing on the steel bar can easily be registered. This...
Handwritten on back: "Mildred of Thorndale and triplet heifer calves. Owned by Norman Chandler, Unionville, PA. First time on record that triplet heifers have been registered by the American Guernsey Cattle Club, May 29, 1925."
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
