Text from image: "I need your skill in a War Job! If you know one of these trades and are not in real war work, you are badly needed: Airplane Skin Man; Airplane Subassembler; Ammunition Inspector; Assembler, Ship; Bench Hand, Metal Work; Bus...
This photograph illustrates the wide variety of training and skill necessary to carry out research efficiently on the large scale on which it is conducted at DuPont's Experimental Station. Many specialists, in addition to research chemists,...
An operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyzer in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DU{Pont nylon plant at Seaford,...
At the Photo Products plant, Parlin, New Jersey an operator thread perforator, a machine used to punch sprocket holes in motion picture film, microfilm and some types of x-ray film. This operation is normally done under what are called safe light...
The operator is inspecting the film as it emerges from the drying chamber of the coating machine to catch any defect Film is inspected in both transmitted and reflected light. The coated film is wound up on a mandrel which is in the cabinet in...
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...
Operator at DuPont's new silicon plant at Brevard, North Carolina 'picking' silicon needles. This method of inspection helps maintain high purity standards of DuPont silicon. The material, a non metallic element, is used in such devices as...
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
High pressure lab of DuPont's Chemical Department investigates chemical reactions at high pressures, often equivalent to that exerted by a column of water six miles high. Operator shown here checks remote controls at the DuPont Company's...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Written on back of image: "The various colors are traced on individual rollers. A 10 color pattern calls for 10 copper rollers. The operator is transferring pattern to the varnished copper cylinder. The stylus point or finger of the machine is...
Work in the Main Power House of the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI apparently is conducive to a ripe old age. Here are the more elderly of the staff of the power house, lined up in front of the latest of the three huge 110,000...
General view of the docks at the Gary Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, largest US steel subsidiary at Gary, Indiana. Shows the hulett un-loaders in operation. The operator sits in a cab just above the grab bucket and controls the...
