Standard wood and metal turning equipment, including hand fed lathes, turret lathes and automatic screw machines, are suitable for turning Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. A tool used for cutting steel will perform satisfactorily. It can be...
Caption text on photo: "Standard wood and metal turning equipment, including had fed lathes, turret lathes, and automatic screw machines, are suitable for turning 'Lucite' methyl methacrylate resin. A tool used for cutting steel will perform...
Small scale production of titanium metal was first announced by the DuPont Company in 1948. Testing of its properties shows that it can be worked by standard equipment. This rolling mill is turning out a test sheet of titanium.
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Making rifle barrels that will shoot true and straight requires mathematical exactness. These expert workmen in an American factory that is turning out rifles and cartridges for our fighting men are making these rifle barrels accurately straight...
Striking aerial view of Miami, metropolis of the American Riviera. Marvelous development of resort places in southern Florida menaces the French-already thousands of Americans who formerly went to the Mediterranean winter resorts to spend their...
Baca County CO- This abandoned farmstead stands in ruin from blasting winds which have shifted top soil from field to cover the house and improvement. The old turning plow in the foreground was left at the end of a row in the field.
Schenectady NY- How the M-7 tank killers built here are now spearheading the Allied rout of Rommel was described here today by Major General Russell L. Maxwell, Commander of US armed forces in the Middle East who directed US North African Military...
Chicopee MA-Spring is here and hard on its heels is the season for baseball, Americas favorite sport. Already the factories that manufacture baseballs are busily turning out a supply to meet the demand. These photographs, made at the A.G. Spalding...
Operation of a calendar capable of turning out millions of yards of plastic coated fabric a year may be controlled form this central instrument board at the Newburgh, New York plant of the DuPont Company's Fabrics and Finishes Department. The...
Section of calendar, capable of turning out millions of yards of plastic coated fabrics a year at the Newburgh plant in New York. This calendar, which weighs 175 tons was placed in operation in 1957.
Its open framework lending a deceptive air of simplicity to a complicated chemical process, this tower with huge storage tanks and shipping cylinders of various sizes in the foreground represents the heart of DuPont's new multimillion dollar...
Planned work means easier work in home or plant. Methods engineers' studies of the job of Charley Chrustowski, DuPont Chambers Works inspector, eliminated 70% of the motions he used to employ in drum labeling. Stretching, turning and walking were...
Sulfuric acid unit at the East Chicago, Indiana Works of the DuPont Company's Industrial and Biochemicals Department is the world's largest, capable of turning out more than a trainload of acid a week. This unit was brought into commercial...
This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno about 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are placed in the trough. Nitroglycerin is added from the containers shown on the cart at the...
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...
Spinnerets, after turning out filaments or yarn for specified periods, are taken to a laboratory for cleaning and checking, a standard procedure to guard the quality and uniformity of rayon yarn made at the plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company....
