The Space Shuttle will consist of a manned reusable orbiter which will look like a delta winged airplane. At launch it will be mounted to a large expendable propellant tank and two recoverable and reusable solid propellant rockets. The orbiter is...
Rudy Blesch, probably the most distinguished jazz authority in the country and author of many books on the subject, drops in on Editor Bill Grauer of the Record Changer Magazine to discuss old ragtime piano records. Blesch is at the present time...
French Mule Spinning-The stock is taken from the drawing department on packages know as "Roving" and the drawing continues until the twisted thread is reduced to the size required. The temperature in this room is probably 95 or 100.
R.E. olds and John Maxwell ascending a dirt mound on Belle in 1899 Oldsmobile. Car is probably first or second version. Olds calls it the car that puts Detroit on the map as auto center of the world.
If you told the average man in the street that these chess men and poker chips were once just a couple of household chemicals he would probably laugh and tell you to stop kidding him. But carbolic acid (phenol to the chemist) and formaldehyde can...
Includes in-laid note from the U.S. Department of Transportation: "During the period June 1, 1983-May 31, 1988, this catalogue was on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., as part of the exhibit called "Stars." It and...
Includes in-laid note from the U.S. Department of Transportation: "During the period June 1, 1983-May 31, 1988, this catalogue was on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., as part of the exhibit called "Stars." It and...
Blast furnaces, Open top blast furnaces, Elevators, Cast houses, Stacks
Works of the Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania detail of the blast furnaces. Four furnace are seen, number 1 to the right which is probably under reconstruction or demolition with numbers 2, 3 and 4 to the left. Number 2 furnace...
Blast furnaces, Open top furnaces, Stoves, Pipe stoves, cold blast mains, Blower houses, Stock houses, Cast houses, Wagons
Stone open top blast furnace. Possibly built in the early to mid 1800's'. A pipe stove is positioned at the charging floor level of the furnace. The pipe leading from the adjacent building is probably the cold blast main feeding the pipe stove. ...
Ingots ready for moving to rolling mill soaking pits. Ingots have been stripped and were probably stored until needed. The worker painting something on the end of a ingot is most likely testing for composition. The photograph's composition...
Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled...
The syrupy viscose used to make cellophane is hardened into film in a bath of sulfuric acid. While there is sufficient sulfuric acid made in this country supply every person with a quart a day, the layman probably never makes a purchase of the acid...
The process by which musk is formed in the body of the musk deer is recapitulated in the making of synthetic musk by the chemist. It is probably that natural musk is formed in the animal by transformation of fats or oils. Here, treated castor oil...
