Table of Contents: Pampering the powerful pods; Getting a line on heat secrets; Suiting up the rangers; Gold mining at homestake; Fabrics with a flair for fashion; The long journey of the air spring; Cocoons for the moon men; Parts pressed while...
Table of Contents: Shoes, secrets and shinbones; New safeguard for auto racers; Mopping up the Mississippi before the flood; The explosive that pours; The cap that won't come off; Coloful seats to cheer from ; A new edge in performance; Where...
Table of Contents: Sound investment at last national bank; Seekers of animal secrets; IMPACT: 40 million parts later; Technologies in tandem; Newcomers to the automotive assembly line; An edge on performance; Redecorating the roadside oases;...
Nylon 66 polymer, the type which was later commercialized, was first synthesized in February, 1935. In one year, more than 50 other nylon polymers were made with a simple glass apparatus like that pictured here. This phase of the work was one step...
Special bicycle with electrically 'loaded' wheel helps staff members at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine study effects of fatigue on employees. Blood pressure and pulse rate of rider are carried by wires to...
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...
Speed that splinters seconds into millionths is essential elements in tools used in chemical research. Here an ordinary egg, exploded by a bullet, is frozen in space by a high speed camera. The electronic camera which caught this dramatic picture...
