Work in the Main Power House of the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI apparently is conducive to a ripe old age. Here are the more elderly of the staff of the power house, lined up in front of the latest of the three huge 110,000...
This complicated physical apparatus at the Experimental Station of DuPont determines the total surface area of particles of finely divided materials. These determinations are important in developing pigment for finishes and other products base on...
These 61 men and women, and the files, machines and other equipment that surround them, represent the force required to handle the DuPont Company's annual tax bill. In 1952, total taxes and re-negotiation for DuPont amounted to $395 million, more...
Air freight handled by the 16 scheduled trunk airlines during the first six months of this year was up an estimated 156 percent over the same period in 1947, a total of 30,723,010 freight ton miles as compared with 11,984,214. This trailer-truck,...
Part of the World's Largest Hydro-Electric Machine-Approximately 1/5 of 1750000 pounds, the total weight of an 84000 horsepower hydro-electric generator is represented in the combined weight of the thrust bearing bracket and stator frame here show...
The 1949 model Ford was Ford Motor Companys first significant post WWII car. From a styling standpoint, its smooth sides paved the way for total integration of fenders and body. From a sales standpoint, the car gave the company momentum to recover...
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.
Moving down across the picture from the upper right corner, Dacron polyester fiber in rope like tow form rushes into the drawing machine (not shown) where al fib3ers will be stretched to give them proper strength. This is one of many steps through...
A spring fryer, cleaned and weighed is wrapped in cellophane for sale in a self service case. Note the label containing weight, pricing per pound and total price.
Total cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went...
The Hanford construction camp which housed 45,000 construction workers. In addition, residents of a trailer village expanded the total to 52,000 people. Project offices of the U.S. Corp of Engineers and DuPont are shown in the foreground.
This complicated piece of high vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the Chemical Department of DuPont is used for measuring the surface are of fine powders, such as pigments. The process involves measuring the amount of gas such as nitrogen...
This section of DuPont's Experimental Station on the Brandywine suggests the atmosphere of a college campus. Research, which has been conducted at the Station since 1903, has led to the development of many new and improved products, including nylon...
Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPonts Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour...
This sulfuric acid production unit at the Cleveland Works of the DuPont Companys Industrial and Biochemicals Department is a striking example of the high investment per employee required in the modern chemical industry. Completed in 1949 at a cost...
Shown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPonts research laboratories and is believed to...
Earl Wescott, representing DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee rayon plant, and his sister, Marie, of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, visit the home of E.I. du Pont Nemours, founder of the company. The Wescotts come from a family whose combined...
Earl Wescott, representing DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee rayon plant, and his sister, Marie, of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, visit the home of E.I. du Pont Nemours, founder of the company. The Wescotts come from a family whose combined...
Earl Wescott, representing DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee rayon plant, and his sister, Marie, of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, visit the home of E.I. du Pont Nemours, founder of the company. The Wescotts come from a family whose combined...
