Hendrick writes that he is pleased with the progress report. He engages in a discussion of how short the steam can be cut off for he wishes to have the best machine in this part of the country, as far as water and fuel are concerned which is...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Table of Contents: Hats off to the railroads; Rayon for new-type furniture; Duplate, safety recommends its use for automobiles; Color photography today; High carnival on Manhattan; Wild life, past and present; True sportsmen conserve game; Now -- a...
Smithtown PA- Meet 52 year old Victor Pegoris, bituminous coal miner- a superman who hasn’t taken a day off this century since January 1, 1940 and has a letter from his boss, President of Pittsburgh Coal Company to prove it. Victor is a 186 lb...
At the lumber yard of Church E. Gates Company, 152 Street and East River, NY, there is a system of roller and belt conveyors which take planks to all parts of the place. Here, the lumber comes from ships via a line of rollers. It is shoved off the...
Cut off machine used by Edward Burke, technical assistant, Arlington Works. Machine chops bristles after they have been tapered. This is experimental model.
Rolls of cellophane cellulose film are run off onto large drums, which a re built circular like the rolls. The cellophane is then cut to specific lengths, on order, at the plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
In addition to a moisture removal process, purity is a prime essential in the manufacture of Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants and represents 70% of the process. Here a chemical operator at the Organic Chemicals Department's Chambers Works...
Running off rayon yarn for weighing to determine denier (weight) at the Richmond, Virginia plant of the Rayon Division of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Hendrick asks again that the company take the boiler and burners that he and his men could not get to work satisfactorily off his hands. Hendrick writes that his engineers are as good engineers as is going, and they could not fix the problem of...
Text from back of image: "Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, the American airmen, took off at three o'clock in the morning from Southport (Lancashire) sands in their plane 'Lady Peace' for their return flight across the Atlantic to New York. Photo...
Text from back of image: "Before Harry Richman, night club singer, and Dick Merrill took off from Southport, England on their return flight to the United States, they made a flight from England to Paris. Their plane, the Lady Peace, is seen above...
Text from back of image: 'Flying the same plane in which Clarence Chamberlin crossed the Atlantic, Captain J. E. Boyd, took off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York City on June 11th on a projected non-stop good will flight to Port-Au-Prince,...
Text from back of image: 'The plane 'Star of Australia' with Capt. T. P. Ulm and two companions aboard took off from Oakland Airport, Calif., on the first leg of the flight to Australia. This photo shows, left to right: Capt. T.P. Ulm, chief pilot;...
Text from back of image: ''Old Glory' is ready to take off for Rome, awaiting only favorable weather. Aviators Bertaud and Hill, are anxioius to start without delay. (Photo shows Old Glory on the ground ready to hop.)'
Text from back of image: 'The 'Untin' Bowler, giant Sikorsky biplane, which will attempt to fly from Chicago to Berlin via Iceland and Greenland, hopped off from North Beach, Queens, NY on June 29th for Chicago. Robert Gast and Parker Cramer were...
Text from back of image: "The British unofficial round the world flight which will more or less compete with the American cruise got off from Southhampton recently in the 'Vulture' a hugh amphibian plane. First photo to reach this country shows the...
