The above photographs are fiber diagrams comparing the fiber distribution and length of fibers in Two Top produced by Pacific Mills Worsted Division with other types of top. No. 1 represents a conventional pick carded and combed rayon top. The...
Originally built in 1883 as a hand fed open top furnace. Demolished by 1934. Note skip hoist from base of elevator shaft to furnace top and lack of a bridge from elevator to furnace top. Most likely added in a eary 20th century rebuild.
Written on back of image: "Top saddle guide for right crimper #19 picture. Built as a bottom saddle, 12-14-51, Book 91-13-A, Book 91-14-B; Reused as a top saddle, 3-12-52 Book 91-83, 91-94, 91-96-A (F22), 91-98-A (F26). This top guide, fitting the...
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 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
Formed in one piece, this popcorn vending machine top of Lucite acrylic resin incorporates many improvements over the old type fixture. Measuring 34 inches wide, 27 inches deep and 14 inches high, the top is one of the largest one-piece, die-formed...
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...
Imagine six lanes of cars jammed almost bumper to bumper across the vast arch of a man-made rainbow in the sky. Looking west from the top of the tollgate canopy at the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge. The incline of the ramp is greatly exaggerated...
Its 23 feet and 7 inches to the top of the Lockheed Constellations triple fin. Two TWA hostesses and a feminine ticket agent are shown on the ladder. Reading from top to bottom are Hostess Jean Mellby, Ticket Agent Isabelle Stevens, and Hostess...
On Plymouth new 1940 convertible coupe the top raises or lowers itself by vacuum power from the engine when the driver touches a control button. This year's model has auxiliary seats for extra passengers inside the car for better weather...
1792 Blowing house to the left with pipe stoves for the hot blast in the center with the furnace and stock houses to the right. Note the bell beam at the top of the furnace.
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...
