The dome in the foreground is part of containment vessel housing the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at the Savannah River Plant. The vessel is 70 feet in diameter and approximately 125 feet high. Shown is the 65 foot portion of the structure...
The weight of animals is a guide to effect of the test materials. The fact that rabbit at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine at Newark, Delaware lost no weight following test helped clear one plastic film for good...
The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor, an experimental pressurized heavy water reactor, designed and built by the DuPont Company for the Atomic Energy Commission at its Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina became operative March 3,...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows glider being towed by airplane shortly after leaving the ground during test flight. Scoring his second victory in a glider within the last month, Dale Drake, Reedley, Cal. aviator, soared to an altitude of 1200...
Text from back of image: "An autogiro plane, recently brought to this country from England by Harold Pitcairn, president of the Pitcairn Aviation Company, known as the Cierva 'Windmill Craft,' with C. F. Faulkner at the controls, attained an...
A laboratory technician places a disc of Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, in a high voltage testing set to measure its dielectric strength. The transformer oil bath serves as an insulator to prevent voltage flash over...
Test pieces being removed from an injection molding machine in the Plastics Department's Technical Services Laboratory. These machines are used in molding sample parts made from Zytel nylon resins, Alathon polyethylene resins and Lucite acrylic...
Test pieces being removed from an injection molding machine in the Polychemicals Sales Service laboratory. These machines are used in molding sample parts made from Zytel nylon resins, Alathon polyethylene resins and Lucite acrylic resins The...
This is a test strip of carpet, portions of which have been treated with Ludox collodial silica. After vacuuming, treated areas emerge clean, while untreated portions remain dirty and dingy.
An air gun is used to spray test colors on china and glassware in the laboratory of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department . In plant operation, automatic equipment replaces hand spray.
Electroplated test samples being examined in the Sodium Products Service Laboratory at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department plant in Niagara Falls, New York. The laboratory is used for electroplating research and for technical service to the...
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.
This test for determining the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline is only one of many tests run regularly by DuPont as part of its research to solve fuel and lubricant problems at the Petroleum Laboratory, Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Results of...
Fatigue test attempting to determine safe amount of work for employees is conducted on special bicycle in all weather room at the Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine, Newark, Delaware. While subject rides an electrically...
