25 of these giant new type steam locomotive for freight service are being built by the PRR to draw wartime trains of 125 loaded cars at speeds in excess of 50 mph. The new engine develops more power in its working range than any steam locomotive...
A 1910 model Buick towers over the low slung XP-300, a "dream" car built by Buick for experimental purposes. The XP-300 is the latest creation of Charles A. Chayne, seated, vice president of General Motors in charge of the engineering staff. He is...
A 'quartz fingernail' is used by DuPont chemists to determine how hard a paint film is. The device measures the weight necessary to drive the rounded end of a quartz rod a given distance into the film. In this manner the exact hardness of the paint...
A 'quartz fingernail' is used by DuPont chemists to determine how hard a paint film is. The device measures the weight necessary to drive the rounded end of a quartz rod a given distance into the film. In this manner the exact hardness of the paint...
A simplified V belt drive design software program needed tos olve coplex drive belt problems on location is available from Dayco Rubber Product Company. Users quickly determine correct dirve for the application, extra drive capacity, optimum drive...
About to start on a Liberty Loan flight in one of the special postal planes built by the Standard Aircraft Corporation for the United States Post Office Department. Millions of circulars were dropped by this airplane in the course of the 4th...
American Rolling Mill Company hand operated sheet mill. The roll trains are on either side of the flywheel and multi rope drive. Power is most likely a steam engine.
Estate, "Clifton Wynyates" on Mill Creek Drive, a 20-bedroom English style home by Price and McLanahan, Philadelphia. Brown enlarged estate to 192 acres. Later home of Eugene Houdry, Mike Douglas and Teddy Pendergrass (purchased 1979). Estate...
Bath, Maine- Shipyard workmen of the Bath Iron Works drive wedges under the guided missile frigate USS Oliver Mazard Perry, FFg-7, prior to her launching ceremony.
Caption: "Two automobile pioneers are shown here in front of the third in the line of garages operated by the man who started the first garage in Wilmington and built the first car made in Delaware. Seated at the wheel of the French-make touring...
