Whiskey Island, Cleveland OH- Photo shows freighter being unloaded at the ore docks. This is done by Clam Shell Buckets. Each bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed automatically, between 8 million...
Cleveland OH- Photo shows a clam shell bucket filled with ore after it has been drawn from a lake freighter hold and about to transfer to railroad cards. Such a bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed...
Williamson WV-Some three thousand coal cars, all empty, await termination of the coal strike at Williamson WV, center of one of the nation's richest bituminous coal fields. Loaded, these cars would hold approximately 150,000 tons of coal....
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Ice; Housing; Glue;
Table of Contents: A leap ahead in lubricants; New air of structural importance; The mighty module for microelectronics; The ice age: a modern version; Coating to charm a community; Hydraulic lift for six million tons of iron; The house the air...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry; Ammunition;
Table of Contents: What of the new year; Five tons of rock per pound of explosives; More economy in secondary shooting; Whence American dyes; A new way of looking at soap; Dynamite breaks into the movies; Explosives in the lumber industry; DuPont...
Table of Contents: Adaptability; Keeps the home fires burning; Beach blasting down Barnegat Way; We congratulate the railroads; Your humble servants, lacquered fabric tablecloths; The development of the apple industry; Multiple radio homes...
Table of Contents: The lone inventor; Little ones out of big ones; Titanium from pounds to tons; EPN goes to work; What do you think of aerosols; Boom in broilers; Paintbrush profile; The farmer takes the air; G-men of the rails; The DuPont story;...
Smithtown PA- Meet 52 year old Victor Pegoris, bituminous coal miner- a superman who hasn’t taken a day off this century since January 1, 1940 and has a letter from his boss, President of Pittsburgh Coal Company to prove it. Victor is a 186 lb...
This triple duty Super Constellation, sporting a new military look, is ready to start long haul service with the Military Air Transport Service as a convertible transport that can be quick switched to carry passengers, cargo or hospital litter...
Huge motor driven drums like that shown in the picture dump the run of mine coal from railroad cars into the hoppers which feed the worlds largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit, PA. The capacity of the automatic car dumps at this breaker is...
Some of the coal brought by railway cars from nearby mines to be fed into the Locust Summit District Central Breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Locust Summit, PA. This cleans and prepares the Reading anthracite used as...
25, 000 tons of wood pulp at the paper mill of Finch, Pruyn & Co., Glenn Falls NY. The man on top seems like a diminutive speck in comparison to this pile.
In the attic of the Roosevelt Library are these files of Roosevelt's documents and papers. They are part of the National Archives. Waiting to be classified by a staff of ten librarians are 400 tons of manuscripts. There are also 15,000 books,...
First shipment of bulk nitrate that has been handled to the Pacific. This vessel sailed from Tocopilla loaded with 350 tons of nitrate for San Francisco.
Shown here are two huge ore unloading machine which will serve the new coal and ore dock at Toledo to be formally opened on June 2 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. Each of these machines is capable of unloading...
One of 36 streamlined steam locomotives and tenders built for the Government of India by the Baldwin Locomotive Works is hoisted on board the British-owned S.S. Peter Dal. Weighing 136 tons with their tenders, the units are specially blocked and...
Heating rivets which hold the steel plates against the tremendous pressure of the water, is an important link in the chain of shipbuilding. The worker keeps steady pace with the demands of the riveters, and as tons of rivets are used in each ship,...
