The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
A single thread of Cordura rayon sailcloth, as used in the quadrilateral jib of America's 1937 cup defender Ranger, is unwound into the 390 filaments of which it is made. The microscope, magnifying them twenty five times, presents an unusual...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Fashion industry; Textile industry; Zippers; Fire fighting; Canned foods; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: New fabrics are shaping sportswear; The hardware's leaving fashion; New foe for fires; DuPont show of the week; Every can may have a single lining; New puzzle-solver for decision makers; Sightly sound panels; Keeping current in...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
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...
A few minutes after this photograph was snapped these 33 sturdy Vultee BT-13 Basic Trainers, piloted by U.S. Army fliers in foreground were roaring down the 4000 foot runway at 10 second intervals for delivery to Moffett Field, California basic...
Greatest single truck shipment of lumber ever moved over American highways at one time parades through Los Angeles streets as 100 motor trucks and trailers, carrying almost a million board feet representing a year's supply for Universal Studios, is...
The S.S. Peter Dal has begun a 27 day voyage to India to deliver 36 steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. These are among the largest locomotives ever shipped from this country fully set up. This shipment is believe to be one of...
Believe it or not, but this is the deck of a boat- The Crescent City- which left Detroit this week with 527 motor cars aboard, the largest single shipment of any one make of car ever to leave Detroit via water. The shipment was made by the Plymouth...
Oddities in the news: A robin in Newark, Ohio feathers its nest with threads of pure glass and in Toledo demonstration reveals that a single pane of tempered plate glass bends but does not break under the weight of a three-ton elephant. An now,...
Equal quantity of beer is contained in the single trip packie bottles, left, used in cast quantities to carry beer to our fighting men overseas and the returnable deposit bottles shown right above. Each bottle holds 12 ounces, but there the...
Snydam & Wycoff discuss proposed powder prices for their market and relationship to Mr. Girard. They suggest that the company fix on a single brand for their powder and mimic English powder markings.
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. Bull-block used in making a single reduction on very heavy steel rod . Plain carbon and alloy steel wire for the fabrication of heavy bolts...
1759 Restoration in progress, Waterwheel restored and in operation. Air pipe from the blowing tubs is seen leading to the single tuyere in the lower portion of the archway. The small arched opening near the top of the furnace was where the...
Iron shell open top blast furnaces with three pass stoves. The single charging elevator feeds both furnaces by the connecting walk way at the charging floor level. The two stoves with a tempory roof are possibly Whitwell four pass stoves under...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
