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...
Cellophane enters one end of long casting machine as a liquid and is wound up at the other end as a dry, shiny film. On its way through the machine, a series of baths purify, wash and soften it after which it is dried. At the wind up end, a full...
Gerhard Lang and Andrew Campbell of CorpTech, Wellesley, Mass. which developed a database of high tech companies, found that service firms without hard assets can run into problems raising start up capital. They wound up with a corporate partnering...
Gerhard Lang and Andrew Campbell of CorpTech, Wellesley, Mass. which developed a database of high tech companies, found that service firms without hard assets can run into problems raising start up capital. They wound up with a corporate partnering...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
Bobbins of twisted yarn are checked on creel preparatory to winding on beam for weaving. Each individual strand, called an end, must be wound with meticulous care to insure steady feed in high speed weaving operation. Machine at DuPont's...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware. The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is...
Nylon filament to be used as sutures or fishing leaders is shown in this photograph being wound upon spool preparatory to shipment. Photograph taken at the Arlington, N.J. plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Nylon filaments to be used as sutures or fishing leader is shown in this photograph being wound upon spools preparatory to shipment. Photograph take at the Arlington, New Jersey plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Nylon filaments to be used as sutures or fishing leader is shown in this photograph being wound upon spools preparatory to shipment. Photograph take at the Arlington, New Jersey plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Nylon filaments to be used as sutures or fishing leader is shown in this photograph being wound upon spools preparatory to shipment. Photograph take at the Arlington, New Jersey plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Nylon filaments to be used as sutures or fishing leader is shown in this photograph being wound upon spools preparatory to shipment. Photograph take at the Arlington, New Jersey plant of the Plastics Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
After Orlon acrylic fiber has been wound on shipping bobbins at DuPont's Camden, South Carolina plant, it is given a preliminary check by girl in the foreground before being sent on for final inspection. Cartons on flat truck contain Orlon...
Orlon acrylic fiber is spun as continuous filament onto bobbins shown here. Bobbins are then placed on racks prior to being washed. After washing, the yarn will continue on it way to the third production stage where it will be wound on shipping...
These are wound cakes of DuPont's Dacron polyester fiber just off the spinning machines. Workman is shown inspecting them at the pilot plant at Seaford, Delaware. Dacron is now produced at Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee.
Motion picture film being inspected as it is wound on large rolls at wind up end of casting machine at the DuPont Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey.
