Making rifle barrels that will shoot true and straight requires mathematical exactness. These expert workmen in an American factory that is turning out rifles and cartridges for our fighting men are making these rifle barrels accurately straight...
The DuPont site at Old Hickory, Tennessee reflects the complexity of the many new products now being made on this location replacing rayon and cellophane which were once manufactured here. The aerial view show the new plants for Corfam poromeric...
Hendrick wants to know if the company is now making a surrey. Hendrick mentions a friend who has a White automobile. The friend is trying to devise a regulator so that he will not have to hand-pump the water as much (the only fault he finds with...
Table of Contents: Agriculture and the War; An Idle Army of 500,000,000; Camphor; The Shotgun in Modern Warfare; Apply Industrial Paints; Making Nitroglycerin; Making Black Blasting Powder; Smokeless Rifle Powders.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Conservation of natural resources; Water; Petroleum industry; Recycling; Agriculture; Automobile industry;
Table of Contents: A mighty fight with a tiny pest; Responding to environment regulations; An inside look at corrosion; Making and marketing recycled resins; A growing partnership with nature; The value in waste; Making the green car go; Objective:...
Table of Contents: Making athletic shoes left & right; Teflon goes back to school; Watering a nation Smile, you're on candid camera; You are there; Dinner is served; A new wave; Spinning thread into gold; Making connections in Atlanta; News in...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Dynamite; Explosives; Furniture industry; Automobile repair;
Table of Contents: Research in the dynamite industry; Protection for fun; Posture, a factor in fatigue; Where nature left off; Chemical control saves paper; Making the old car do; Making water wetter.
On Delaware regiments, formation and creation of, and under what laws justify their creation and who is to govern them, also Governor is at loss as to making companies take an oath of allegiance
Sophie expressing gratefulness for making it through Port Royal and notes the Admiral's skill in handling the fleet. Sophie also says she is "overwhelmed" with notes of congratulations
American Steel and Wire Company, Donora Works, Donora, Pennsylvania. Nail making machines. Coiled wire in the foreground, fininished nails are in the tubs in the background
American Steel and Wire Company, Donora Works, Donora, Pennsylvania. Wire nail making machine. The wire is fed from the left, out of sight, and exits at the right as a finished nail
Panoramma, Rolling mills, Steel making plants, Blast furnaces
Works of the Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from across the Lehigh River looking South East The steel making plant and rolling mills are in the foreground with the blast furnaces to the left
Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882). Born in Connecticut, Alexamder Holley became a mechanical engineer of remarkable ability. Energetic, persistent, and inventive, he sought convenient means of doing work. He improved many kinds of machinery, but...
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...
Machine for making high strength, non-woven felts from Dacron polyester fiber is part of the $6,000,000 facilities for experimental fabric production and chemical studies in 17 laboratory units at the DuPont Company's new Textile Research...
An operator adjusts the flow of molten liquid polymer as it is extruded through a lost into a rotating casting wheel. On its way through, the film base is stretched longitudinally and laterally to about 10 times its original size, inspected and...
Paper making machine processing paper from the pulp to the finished sheet in the Technical Laboratory, Dyestuffs Division. A strip of paper made in the machine can be seen wound over the drum at the right.
Contact sulfuric acid operation known as taking the gravity at the E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The worker is making a test.
