The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
Text from back of image: 'This EXCLUSIVE PHOTO shows Lieutenant Leigh Wade's disabled plane, the 'Boston' being brought alongside the cruiser Richmond after being towed to the larger ship by the destroyer Billingsley. Our photo shows one of the...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Lawrence Sperry, the New York sportsman and aviator, who brought his plane to England, where he acted as a campaign courier for the Liberal party in the recent election. Mr. Sperry hopes to visit all of the...
Text from back of photo: 'The first relic of the round-the-world flight to be brought back is the map used by Lieut. Erik Nelson, engineering officer of the party, on the first leg of the long trip. It was brought back by a friend to whom Nelson...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: What explosives users say about Dumorite; Glen Gardner smokestack safely brought to earth; Viscolac, a new economical lacquer; Advertising Pyralin toiletware; Tunneling under the Catskills for water; Boring machines and...
Cincinnati is now eating horse meat in doing her bit in intensive conservation of food. The citys first horse meat shp opened ahead of time Saturday morning owning to the rush of customers. One hour before 8 in the morning, the time set for the...
Schoolboys of San Francisco lined up for inspection in front of their tents at the training camp at Manzanita, CA. This camp was formed exclusively for the school children of San Francisco and the bay cities. The purpose of this camp is to teach...
Some of the coal brought by railway cars from nearby mines to be fed into the Locust Summit District Central Breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Locust Summit, PA. This cleans and prepares the Reading anthracite used as...
Toby Wing, screen and stage star, watches herself in the television receiving set as she performs before the new television equipment in the Philco Radio television station here at which the equipment was tested. The receiving set was brought into...
"A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
Introduced in 1935, the Lincoln Zephyr was a product of the new styling department organized by Edsel Ford. Its sleek design, highlighted by a wedge shaped grille, headlights that blended into the fenders and virtual elimination of running boards,...
Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial...
Now John was married. And laboratory and factory brought better living to his fathers house. Better utensils, better floor coverings, better plastics, better parts to make the house cheerful and easy to clean.
Ceramic colors are tested by firing them on glassware in this small decorating lehr at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department plant at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. This is the discharge end of the lehr. The decorated ware is placed on a traveling belt...
This image shows a section of the vat color chemical control laboratory at the dye works. Vat colors are the fastest coloring agent known to modern science and are used on cotton, viscose process rayon and linen. In general, these colors are the...
Titanium metal is ductile and readily workable, as illustrated by these sample sheets, tubes and bars which were fabricated from DuPont metal on normal steel working equipment. Titanium has excellent strength-weight ratio and outstanding corrosion...
