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....
Remember playing ring around the rosey when you were just so high? Here is a space age resemblance -technicians wrapping up a 30 foot furlable space antenna at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, in Sunnyvale CA. (Clean room suits are work to...
Experimental tunnel at DuPont Company's plant at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey is used by Eastern Laboratory technicians to duplicate conditions in underground mines. Tunnel is drilled 100 feet into face of a stone cliff. It enables researchers to...
Shooting laboratory blast on DuPont's Eastern Laboratory testing ground at Gibbstown, New Jersey enables technicians to study results with high speed motion picture camera, which takes pictures up to 8000 frames a second. Laboratory tests like this...
This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...
Typed on back: "Longwood - June 1951. In front of conservatory showing boxwood garden. Tower in background. XRay technicians dinner at Longwood given by the du Pont Co. Taken by Sister Rivet"
Typed on back: "Longwood - June 1951. Waterfall at the tower, showing dam in foreground. At the dinner of the xray technicians given by the du Pont Co.; taken by Sister Rivet"
