The same kind of work planning which makes jobs easier in DuPont plants also reduces fatigue in DuPont households. Dave Gillon, of the company's Chambers Works, registered for the stroboscopic camera the motions he used in pounding a hoop around...
A stroboscopic camera traces the movements of a man who stacks 50 pound bags. The amount of energy needed to this job is registered on the recording device. Such tests point the way to improvements in job techniques which will reduce fatigue and...
Special bicycle with electrically 'loaded' wheel helps staff members at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine study effects of fatigue on employees. Blood pressure and pulse rate of rider are carried by wires to...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
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...
Fatigue studies are run in DuPont's all weather room under controlled conditions of temperature and humidity. While subject 'walks' on a treadmill, her blood pressure and pulse rate are recorded in an adjoining room.
Table of Contents: Prosperity drive; Feldspar for ceramics; Fertilizer ammoniation; Taming the Saguenay River; Foul water and waterfowl; Cellulose acetate, a DuPont product; A memorial for the ages; Refinished and in service; No more needless...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Dynamite; Explosives; Furniture industry; Automobile repair;
Table of Contents: Research in the dynamite industry; Protection for fun; Posture, a factor in fatigue; Where nature left off; Chemical control saves paper; Making the old car do; Making water wetter.
This almanac advertised two nostrums, Thedford's Black-Draught and Wine of Cardui, both marketed to women. The almanac promised relief from women's typical ailments: cramps or women's pains, weak or painful back, indigestion, fatigue from hard...
