Text from back of image: "Major S. M. Strong, flight surgeon of the Medical Corps attached to Mitchel Field at Garden City L.I., had a remarkable experience a few days ago while on a flight to test the recording barograph and get the 'ceiling' of...
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...
Home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Higgins, Box 351, Boothwyn, PA. House is L shaped. Low original section measures 21 feet at front, 28 feet depth. Higher section is 21 feet at front, 25 feet depth. Fieldstone with modern shingles on roof.
Typed caption on photo: "Deep in Ripple Rock, technical experts of the DuPont Company crimp a water-proof sealer on the end of a detonating cord. The cord detonating at the amazing rate of 20,000 feet per second provided virtually instantaneous...
Its 23 feet and 7 inches to the top of the Lockheed Constellations triple fin. Two TWA hostesses and a feminine ticket agent are shown on the ladder. Reading from top to bottom are Hostess Jean Mellby, Ticket Agent Isabelle Stevens, and Hostess...
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
In this Virginia coal mine the permissible explosive is being loaded into the drill holes. The room has been top cut and sheared on one side of the center to relieve the blast. The room is approximately 10 feet high, 20 feet wide and the blast will...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
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....
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad; Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Colorado & Southern Railroad; Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad; 17th and Wynkoop Streets; Date built:...
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
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...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - giant Martin bombing plane after it had crashed to earth in Brooklyn, New York, burying six members of the army air service. Two officers, Major Folett Bradley and First Lieutenant Stanley Smith, were perhaps...
Text from back of image: "To prove that Arveta Robner(?), 15 year old schoolgirl, was in no danger when she fell 1,000 feet at Roosevelt Field without her parachute opening, Henry Bushmeyer today took two jumps entangling himself in his 'chute...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows glider being towed by airplane shortly after leaving the ground during test flight. Scoring his second victory in a glider within the last month, Dale Drake, Reedley, Cal. aviator, soared to an altitude of 1200...
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
