The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
Table of Contents: Sketching the background; Sweep of the years; Resume of black powder history; Old black powder days; High spots of DuPont high explosives history; Forty-five years ago; Importance of chemistry in DuPont industries; DuPont...
Photograph print of a tennis lesson at Conrad High School in Wlimington, Delaware. The caption reads "Class at Conrad High School showing information relative to the free tennis instruction program sponsored by DLTA."
This complicated piece of high vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the Chemical Department of DuPont is used for measuring the surface are of fine powders, such as pigments. The process involves measuring the amount of gas such as nitrogen...
High pressure lab of DuPont's Chemical Department investigates chemical reactions at high pressures, often equivalent to that exerted by a column of water six miles high. Operator shown here checks remote controls at the DuPont Company's...
High tenacity rayon yarn, a specific DuPont development which was made available to the entire industry without charge as a contribution to the national security in WWII was introduced in 1936 under the trademark Cordura. The yarn was brought...
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Written on back: "Originally built in 1870. Three high finishing rolls (at left) added in 1880. Photograph taken about 1900. Mill dismantled in 1927 after starting new [illegible] 84" [illegible] mill with 2 high roughing and 3 high finishing...
Table of Contents: A striking improvement; Something old, something new; Canola, clearly Canadian; High seas, high tech; The scoop on source reduction; The basis for your bounty; Nothing moves like Lycra; Chunnel vision; A road map to registration;...
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...
Wire mills, Patenting furnaces, Quenching, Molten lead quenching
American Steel & Wire Company, subsiiary of United States Steel Corporation South Works, Worcester, Mass. High grade high carbon wires leaving a M. H. Patenting furnace and entering the molten lead quench bath before entering the take up reels
