Package development is part of the activities of the DuPont Film Department's sales development and technical service laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware. In photo, package specialist is re-designing old package (top right) to...
Building construction; Interior decoration; Fireplaces; Chimneypieces; Antiques;
Contract between Delaware Land Development Company and Allan Burton Stanhope and George Fletcher Bennett for an antique fireplace mantel to be installed in the Board Room of the Delaware Trust Building.
Building construction; Marble; Contracts; Office buildings; Banks; Correspondence;
Letter from Delaware Land Development Company to Wark Company regarding the contract with Hilgardner Marble Company of Baltimore, Maryland for installation of marble in the building addition of the Delaware Trust Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
Building construction; contracts; Banks; Office buildings; Correspondence;
Letter from the Delaware Land Development Company to Wark Company Builders in regards poor construction work done at the Delaware Trust Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
Building construction; contracts; Banks; Office buildings; Correspondence;
Letter from the Delaware Land Development Company to Wark Company Builders in regards to the slow progress on building work done at the Delaware Trust Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
Building construction; Marble; Contracts; Office buildings; Banks; Correspondence;
Letter from Delaware Land Development Company to Wark Company regarding the color of the marble to be installed for the building addition of the Delaware Trust Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
General Electric is on the leading edge of a computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) revolution that promises to make the company vastly more productive. One facet of this is computer graphics, a technology that frees the design engineer...
The development of nylon came through the combined efforts of a team of scientists headed by the late Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers. Seven members of the original group associated with this development attended the dedication of The Carothers Research...
Collection guide for the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier,...
Mailboxes; Postal Service; Building construction; Office buildings; Correspondence;
Letter with photograph enclosure from Wark Company Builders to Delaware Land Development Co. concerning the installation of the Cutler brand mail chute to be installed in the Delaware Trust Building.
Contract laborers; Building construction; Banks; Historic buildings; Correspondence;
Letter from the Delaware Land Development Company to Wark Company regarding problems arising from using a number of sub-contractors for building construction of the Delaware Trust Building in Wilmington, Delaware.
Laser assisted machining is one of several advanced techniques being explored at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. to improve productivity and lower costs in the metalworking industry. In their experiments,...
Edward Burke, technical assistant in Arlington semi-works development, operates one of the Plastics Department's first cut-off machines for tapered nylon bristles. He started at Arlington in 1912 and has worked on development of products for the...
Modern research takes time, manpower and money. Tools take a large share of the investment. The Semi-works unit shown here illustrates the complex, costly equipment needed in a modern industrial research laboratory. This reactor was a vital tool in...
Nylon 66 polymer, the type which was later commercialized, was first synthesized in February, 1935. In one year, more than 50 other nylon polymers were made with a simple glass apparatus like that pictured here. This phase of the work was one step...
