Written caption: Joanna furnace in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Erected 1792 by George Eege (?) , rebuilt and enlarged in 1847. Small building to left is the engine house, stone stack and ruins of cast house at right. The space between engine house...
Written caption: Stack and wall of cast house at right. Hot blast stove and blowing engine house at left. Pipe extending into arch of furnace stack is the hot blast main.
Stone blast furnace, Boone, Kentucky, built 1857 with a iron bound upper stack. A trestle would have existed between the stone wall in the background and the top of the stack for the charging buggies to access the furnace top.
Open hearth furnace waste heat boiler located near the base of the exhaust stack use the hot gases exiting the checker chambers to create steam for plant use. In this particulare desigh the hot gases enter the boiler at the right from the flue...
Ten to fifteen percent of carbon black output of this plant of the Cabot Carbon Company goes up in the smoke from the stack at left, while filter bags made of DuPont's Orlon acrylic fiber installed in stack at right recovers 100% of the costly...
Power lines with a view of the chemical buildings and fumes stack in rear at the Spruance rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, near Richmond, Virginia.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Paint industry; Farming;
Table of Contents: Some inside facts about the explosives business; Cathedral spires of the forest; Felling Spokane's crematory stack; American dyestuffs company tackles its problems; Buttons;
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: Unreasoning fear of explosives; Dropping a smelter stack with dynamite; Dynamite digs quarter-mile ditch in split second; Accident insurance by the yard; Veneering with Pyralin; Dumorite takes a hand at road building; Know the...
Table of Contents: Business outlook; We amputate a stack; Campal, a real pal; Duco-finished car wins at Indianapolis; Battling the bandits with Pyralin; Proper use of permissibles; Opening a new mine in Illinois; Railroad work at Central City,...
Table of Contents: Old black powder days; Mining by caving; Sportop fabrics; Weber finds Duco a great aid; Fabrikoid for interior decoration; The Cuban central highway; New beauty in bedspreads; Fine furniture from Holland; A visit with...
Includes partial minutes of 12/8/1997 meeting of the Finance committee; partial minutes and materials of the 12/9/1997 meeting of the Board of Directors; full minutes of 2/1/1999 and 9/17/1999 Special meetings of the Board of Directors; minutes and...
1759 Restoration in progress by National Park Service. Shoring suppoorting the stack will be removed as the stonework is restored. Upper portion is finished. The house on top with a stove inside was installed to permit workers to work in the...
Lehigh Crane Iron Works, 1840, Furnace stack to right is the original and first anthracite furnace in America, Increased to three stacks as shown in photo. In 1865-1869 three were added making a total of 6.
1835 cold blast charcoal furnace with water wheel & wooden blowing tubs built by Henry Potts & others. About 1880 Joseph D. Potts converted to a steam engine with iron vertical blowing engine and hot blast and increased stack height. Blown out in...
Open top furnace charging platform. Enclosed charging throat with exhaust stack. The charging doors were fairly late in the development of the open top furnace and were not found very often
Rising like a giant stack topped vat this solvent scrubbing tower, located on the site of DuPont's Camden, South Carolina plant for the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, recovers certain chemicals used in the Orlon process. Completed in 1952,...
