This is how the mammoth, 213,000 pound Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 the worlds largest and longest ranging jet bomber appeared a few minutes after takeoff at Muroc Air Force Base for its first transcontinental mission, a flight to Washington D.C....
Introduced in 1935, the Lincoln Zephyr was a product of the new styling department organized by Edsel Ford. Its sleek design, highlighted by a wedge shaped grille, headlights that blended into the fenders and virtual elimination of running boards,...
Blast furnaces - 19th Century; Open top furnaces; Hand fed furnaces; Elevators; Bell beams; Downcomers; Railroad cars; Locomotives; High lines; Ore roasters
Oldest built 1862, converted to anthracite 1867, rebuilt various dates. Cone shaped ore rosters to remove sulfur from Cornwall ore to left. Berkshire Iron Co. Date of photo unknown.
Among the newer packaging ideas being shown by the Film Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company is this self service unit of brick ice cream. It is a direct wrap with flavor identity on a continuous band of cellophane which also serves as an...
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....
Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
How fast a lacquer or finish will dry is determined by the use of plate glass discs coated with the material to be tested and revolved slowly while a thin trickle of sand falls on them from a cone shaped container. It has been found by DuPont...
Black powder line starts at soda mill, where synthetic nitrate is unloaded, screened and weighed out. Powder man at DuPont Belin Works uses traditional scoop shaped like snow plow to move sodium nitrate to the screen equipment, while more cascades...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Tunnel leads into one of the ten mound shaped buildings which form manufacturing area at DuPont's dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. Concrete walls are twice as thick as foundation of well built home. Air conditioning is new feature of...
Three flavors of cheese are in this interesting assortment of prints which are shaped to fit most crackers when sliced. The individual prints are wrapped in DuPont cellophane inside an outer wrapping of the clear film.
Written on back: "Setting #1 is a traditional living room which has been updated with today's fashionable colors. Architectural interest is achieved with walls panelled in antique pine from the house of the late Myron Taylor. The floor has been...
Roofed grave, probably in the graveyard at the Bethel Methodist Church located on Line Road, Sussex County, Delaware. There are a few A-line shaped roofs with shingles covering shallow graves.
Roofed grave, probably in the graveyard at the Bethel Methodist Church located on Line Road, Sussex County, Delaware. There are a few A-line shaped roofs with shingles covering shallow graves.
Handwritten on back: "#1: small sequoia gigantea branch showing foilage, cones, and seeds. These cones are about 3" long and contain between 200 and 300 seeds whcih are shaped somewhat like a falke of rolled oats. About 100,000 of these seeds in a...
