Typed caption: "Red Cross Committee Wilmington, Delaware, 1915. Top row - reading left to right: Col. Edmund Mitchell, Gen. Charles Bird, Mr. S. D. Townsend, Mr. A. A. Curtis, Mr. T. Coleman du Pont, Mr. Thomas F. Bayard, Mr. C. D. Garretson,...
Printed on front: "Little patients being evacuated from the Hospital for Sick Children, London, WC1 after it had received a direct hit. Everyone was saved and the hospital carries on."
Printed on front: "One of the wards of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1, damaged by a H.E. bomb. Over 50,000 pounds worth of devastation was caused."
Photomicrograph, at 660 magnification, showing a typical nylon thread in cross section. The 17 filaments are almost perfectly round and very smooth. This represents a thread used in sheer stockings and fine knit goods.
This diagram shows a typical surface cross section as it might appear, magnified many thousands of times, under an electron microscope. The surface might be that of a fiber, or of a painted wall, or even wall paper. In Line No. 1, rough soil...
A bias cross section of Cordura rayon sailcloth as used in the quadrilateral jib of Americas 1937 cup defender, Ranger, magnified sixty times y the microscope.
Text from back of image: 'Fighting through chill arctic winds and snow storms, the three U.S. army round the world fliers, under command of Lieut. Lowell Smith, above, negotiated the 878-mile flight from Attu Island to Paramashiru Island, thereby...
