Ammonia is produced in this area of DuPonts Repauno Plant, Gibbstown NJ. Hydrogen and nitrogen are reacted with a catalyst at high temperatures and pressures in a vessel beneath the superstructure in the center. Towers at left are part of the unit...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An unusual property of Lucite acrylic resin is its ability to pipe light efficiently and with very little leakage around curves (radius of the curve must be at least twice the diameter of the thickness of the rod or sheet used). This ability is...
At the DuPont Electrochemicals Department plant at Niagara Falls NY, a half ton collector in a sodium cell is being changed. The cell breaks down salt by electrolysis into sodium and chlorine. The molten sodium is drawn off by the collector into...
At the lumber yard of Church E. Gates Company, 152 Street and East River, NY, there is a system of roller and belt conveyors which take planks to all parts of the place. Here, the lumber comes from ships via a line of rollers. It is shoved off the...
Baton Rouge, LA-WPA Adult Education. A night school class for Negroes. Not all are illiterate, but many have never progressed beyond the third or fourth grade.
Because of its strength and resistance to oils and greases, new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film as been adopted by many bakeries. Here the new belting carries freshly cooked doughnuts to powered sugar bin at the General Baking Company...
Blue plate dinners a la Lend-Lease. From five tiny cellophane wrapped squares of compressed dehydrated food exactly like those in the foreground-left to right they are Borscht (Russian soup), meat load, mashed potatoes, cranberries and carrots-came...
Bonded to building materials, DuPont's new 'Tedlar' PVF film gives them a useful, low maintenance outdoor life of many years without refinishing. Here, a DuPont salesman, right, check tests in Pre-Finish Metal plant in Chicago. In the building...
Caption on back: "Factory where wood kegs are made. Man in center (Gailey Matthewson) has worked here for 50 years and is 77 years old and has only one lung but seems good for many years yet."
Caption text on photo: "Plastics extruder in operation at DuPont's new Pigment Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. The plastics industry is a growing market for both titanium dioxide white pigment and many types of colored pigments. Here...
Caption text on photo: "The chemical being poured and the foam surrounding the scientist in the Elastomers Laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Del., are made from DuPont's new organic isocyanates. Customers combine the isocyanates with...
Caption: "A miner is here shown illustrating the old time method of boring holes in the face of a coal seam for the explosive charge used to loosen it. This apparatus is suspended by electric or other power drills. Many other aids have been...
