Siegel, Cooper & Co.’s popular portfolio of the World’s Columbian Exposition and principal places of amusement / illustrated by water color drawings by C. Graham. View of the Grand Court with balloon in background.
Benjamin Franklin and Aeronautics by I. Bernard Cohen - (from a contemporary print)""The first parachute landing was made in England by a Frenchman, Mons. Garnerin descending from a height of about 800 feet""
Illustration from Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion published in 1786 by Thomas Baldwin;""The Balloon Over Helsbye Hill in Cheshire""
Illustration from Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion published in 1786 by Thomas Baldwin; "A Balloon Prospect from Above the Clouds"
Military officers; Uniforms; Navies; Sailors; Daggers & swords
Uniform regulations for officers and enlisted personnel in the United States Nave and Marine Corps. Includes thirteen color plates and two black and white plates depicting uniforms, swords, and badges of rank.
Table of Contents: Vital to defense; Our motion picture library; New explosive rivets speed production; From a mother's diary; The history of the DuPont oval; All in a day's work; Banishing blue Mondays; Clothes make the working man; Relaxing for...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Defense industry; Paint industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Agricultural research and some newer developments; Manpower for warpower; Food briquettes; Stars over Brandywine; Photo film by DuPont; Fats are needed; Paint research in wartime; Polyvinyl resins.
Table of Contents: New Jersey's ripening tomato industry; New moon over Milwaukee; A tile styled for traffic; The well-mannered look; The first universal house paint; Power-packing pistol; Sailing the vulcoon; Piped light pyrotechnics; Economic...
Table of Contents: The curriculum is fashion; X equals life; Sculpture: the age of acrylic; Where loblollies grow and African love grass weeps; History you can hang on a wall; A tunnel for tomorrow; Assignment: foil felons; tough new finishes:...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Medicine; Rescue workers; Equipment; Fire fighters; Building materials; Textile industry; Cooking utensils; Cellular telephones;
Table of Contents: Good ideas are growing; Matters of the heart; A good tool for good hands; Under construction; Golden performance; SilverStone : not just for cookware anymore; Designers have designs on Corian; Windows on the world; Wired for...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Mining; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: The diamond of many facets; From igloo to kraal; Coming of age; Super hayseeds; And one to grow on; The glorified sorter-counter; Rocky Mountain miner; The blanched-cloth mysteries; Detroit had to be shown; Packages of the...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Paint industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: 1946 in review; Chick time again; Afloat with Dulux; A decade with DuPont lucite; Fashioned for rain; Eye buying; Window dressing; Hit-em hard, and often; X-ray, fluoroscopic, and intensifying screens; Did you know; What's new.
Table of Contents: Food for the new four billion; The dream pipe that's no pipe dream; Watchword for '61: innovation; Big doings on Dorchester Street; A teen-ager paints her room; Mighty miniatures; Tints you love to touch; Inside look at the first...
Table of Contents: Guarding black gold; How to cover a wall without getting all hung up; In keeping with tradition; Teamwork for fashion; The roof is the proof of the building; I worked at the weaver's trade; Flight of the gossamer albatross;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Plastics industry; Shoe industry; Livestock;
Table of Contents: Food for the fifth plate; I'm a one-suitcase man; Sales pitch in the parlor; Small package, big punch; He saw through his invention; Bucket-brigade research; Now it's dustless; The more compleat angler; Making money from smoke;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Textile industry; Paper industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: War on spores; A two-way winner; More peroxide from less power; They tried to swivel it to death; Big catch for Nova Scotia; DuPont's newest water repellent; A dream come true; What's new; Give books this Christmas; 1,000...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; AIDS (Disease); Soybeans; Nutrition; Snowshoes & snowshoeing; Hosiery; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Clothing industry; Photography; Nylon; Rugs;
Table of Contents: Dedicated to the fight against AIDS; To do list for the planet; The human bean; Extreme performance; Energy to spare; It's different, it's Corian; Working hard with Carhartt; Flash forward; Nylong rugs, meet the computer;...
