With the public demanding faster more stylish cars, Ford created the 1928 Model A. The new car was so popular it was literally mobbed in the showrooms. Model A Fordor Sedans like this one cost about $600, not much more than a comparable Model T,...
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Written on back: "Comes a hot summer night and nothing will be more appreciated than a pair of cool, feather-weight 'Ban-Lon' pajamas with loose, unencumbered lines. Easy tee-shirt styling makes these the coolest of the cool. Manufacturer:...
The world’s largest and most powerful air cooled airplane engine, the new 18 cylinder 2000 H.P. Wright Duplex-Cyclone, was announced Monday by the War department and is being inspected here by (left to right) VP George Chapline, Chief Engineer...
Caption: "This piece of Treading Anthracite weighs more than a ton. An inspector of the Philadelphia Reading Coal and Iron Company found that it contained no particles of rock or other impurities."
Spread out in the foreground of this aerial view is DuPont’s Chesnut Run Research center. Eight operating departments of the company now have sales services laboratories at his location. The laboratories are staffed with more than 1,700...
100 4 horse teams are at work on a section of the All American Canal being constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in the Imperial Valley CA. This force account work has provided farmers of Imperial Valley with major work relief jobs. These teams...
50 mail sacks, containing more than 200,000 checks representing April 1922 dividend payments on American Telephone and Telegraph Company stock, leaving the company's building at 195 Broadway for the post office.
Includes the articles "Anti-Aircraft Training Program" and Anti-Aircraft Defense and Materiel [sic]" ; From Foreward: "This booklet, published by the Sperry Gyroscope Company, is still further evidence of that wholehearted cooperation between...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray, Army aeronaut, at Scot Field, Ill., who yesterday broke the world's record for altitude in a free balloon when ascended 41,000 feet, which is a distance of nearly eight miles. The...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
The automatic fraction collector shown in this picture is used extensively at the Industrial and Biochemical Department�s Stine Lab in Newark, Delaware in the isolation and purification of compounds from complex mixtures and in the separation of...
Resembling a horde of huge insets, these Bell H-13D helicopters are lined up at the Niagara Fall Municipal Airport prior to beginning the long journey to Korea where they are urgently needed by the Army Field Forces. Helicopters of this and other...
The DuPont Companys Belle Works stretches for more than a mile along the Kanawha River near Charleston WV. Plant products familiar to the consumer include antifreezes, fertilizers and a mold retardant for baked goods. Other chemical products are...
The DuPont Companys Belle Plant stretches for more than a mile along the Kanawha River near Charleston WV. Plant products familiar to the consumer include antifreezes, fertilizers and a mold retardant for baked goods. Other chemical products are...
