Wide use is being made of mirror glass and black lacquered wood by modern French furniture designers. This cabinet, attractive in its simplicity, makes each drawer a decorative feature, being faced with glass and accented with knobs of lacquered...
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Plenty of forests like this in Canada where, after the timber is taken out, there will be an abundance of wood from which alcohol, can be made from waste wood.
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Massachusetts restoration project. Covering a carefully stacked pile of wood with mud prior to being burned into charcoal for charging into the blast furnace as fuel.
Rolls of wood pulp are placed in position as first step in making cellophane at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which is now in commercial production. Wood pulp is treated with chemicals in a complex and carefully controlled...
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...
Mirror glass and black lacquered wood are two mediums now being widely used by modern French furniture designers. Pieces offered by Colette Gueden, Paris, show great simplicity in design, the mirror glass being used as a decorative element in the...
Flat sheets of dry wood pulp and cotton linters pulp are fed into a corrugator at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company before they start the long chemical road to becoming rayon yarn.
Cotton linters and wood pulp storage building in the foreground, with chemical building and fumes stack in rear and electrical lines overhead at the Spruance rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, near Richmond, Virginia.
Hendrick asks them to order a rheostat suitable for reducing 220 volt current to 115 and inquires about an extra battery. He adds that he still hopes to be first in the field as one of Wood's automobiles was delivered a few days before but was...
Jim Robinson, John Elmes Sr., Lester Broadbelt, Richard D. Wood Jr., Gordon Fischer, Barry Wright, Grahame Wood, Charles Allebach (mayor of Souderton, PA)
Table of Contents: After-War Hunger; Clearing Muck Land; The Penholder; The Menace of the Ice Gorge; Jimmie the Coon; Paint as Light Producer for Factory and Mill Interiors; Ivory Py-ra-lin During the War and After; The Destructive Distillation of...
