Generations of wig makers and doll manufacturers sought hair that could be washed without matting and combed without falling out. Recently, they found it in nylon. Nylon wig (left) and wig of conventional material are shown before and after...
Generations of wig makers and doll manufacturers sought hair that could be washed without matting and combed without falling out. Recently, they found it in nylon. Nylon wig (left) and wig of conventional material are shown before and after...
Dacron polyester fiber rolls off the shipping line at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee plants. Here a special telescope type container lid is slipped over the yarn to protect it in transport to the customers' mills....
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...
Text from back of image: "The machine in which flight-Lieut. Ulm and three companions were to take off from Portmarnock Strand, Ireland, on a flight across the Atlantic, collapsed while being refuelled. After the refuelling operations, an effort...
