This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
A battery of ammonia collectors at the Belle Works of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company near Charleston WV. The actual synthesis of ammonia one of the many products of the big plant, takes place in vessels located behind the concrete barricade at the...
A chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station. When cooled with liquid air, many gases are converted to liquids which are then distilled in this low temperature still, like water or other ordinary liquids.
A fine spray of sun tan oil, dispensed evenly, cleanly and quickly from an aerosol container, helps Mother Nature give you a nice deep tan without all the danger of sunburn, Its just one of many personal products available in the convenient easy to...
Television industry; Product inspections; Testing;
A Kinescope tube, on which the image is reproduced in a television receiver, undergoes one of the many tests it must pass before leaving the RCA Victor television factory.
A mechanical barber trims the bristles of the toothbrush to the required shape at the Leominster, Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company where toothbrushes are manufactured. Eight whirling knives make contact with as many brushes at...
A seashore resort on the Atlantic Ocean, includes a two and one half mile stretch of beach, a 13, 000 foot long boardwalk and a nationally famous amusement park. Roller coasters, tunnel rides, fun houses, shooting galleries and hot dog stands are...
A square meal in 1943 style. The young lady is about to remove the cellophane wrapper from a double portion of mashed potatoes. In their present form they are dehydrated and compressed. Soaking for a few seconds in water makes them swell to many...
A typical group of Reading anthracite miners waiting to go on duty at the Alaska Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company near Mount Caramel PA. Most of them are of the second and third generation of miners in PAs anthracite...
A wash and wear suit that tends to keep its crisp, fresh look through the hottest, muggiest day is this handsome style in a comfortable cord of Dacron polyester fiber and nylon. The suit can be laundered at the very first sign of soil, owing to use...
Aerial view of the benzol plant at the Bell, WV Workd of the DuPont Company. Benzol is one of the materials used here in the manufactyre of nylon intermediates for the nylon yarn and plastics produced at other DuPont plants. At the left are...
Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...
Air freight handled by the 16 scheduled trunk airlines during the first six months of this year was up an estimated 156 percent over the same period in 1947, a total of 30,723,010 freight ton miles as compared with 11,984,214. This trailer-truck,...
Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882). Born in Connecticut, Alexamder Holley became a mechanical engineer of remarkable ability. Energetic, persistent, and inventive, he sought convenient means of doing work. He improved many kinds of machinery, but...
Aluminum alloy rivets in the little cellophane envelope at the left will remain cold and therefore are drivable for an hour or an hour and a half, because of the insulating property of the cellophane, instead of only a half hour, as was the case...
