Cincinnati is now eating horse meat in doing her bit in intensive conservation of food. The citys first horse meat shp opened ahead of time Saturday morning owning to the rush of customers. One hour before 8 in the morning, the time set for the...
A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Chicopee MA-Spring is here and hard on its heels is the season for baseball, Americas favorite sport. Already the factories that manufacture baseballs are busily turning out a supply to meet the demand. These photographs, made at the A.G. Spalding...
Union Oil Company Float Cinderella, awarded the Grand Prize in the Tournament of Roses Parade, annual Southern California New Year fiesta which this year drew to Pasadena a crowd estimated at 1.5 million. The float portrayed Cinderella fleeing from...
Constructed by virtue of an act of legislature of Pennsylvania, passed 19th March 1816. Scale ca. 1:95 000. 1.5 miles to 1 inch. map : ms. ; 41 x 55 cm.
Bethlehem Steel Company, Burns Harbor, Indiana. Four high finishing stand in the 110-inch sheared plate mill. The plate is rolled to desired length and thickness by being passed back and forth through the finishing stand rolls
To determine the degree of gloss in a lacquer or finish, du Pont chemists use a device that measures the amount of light reflected. The light from a constant source is thrown back from the panel into the telescope tube. One half of the 'eyepiece'...
Hydrogen cyanide converters at DuPont's Memphis TN plant. Preheated mixture of ammonia, natural gas and air is fed down through the top of these conical converters where it is passed over a catalyst bed and converted into hydrogen cyanide. Side...
In cylinders such as those illustrated above, liquid chlorine is vaporized and passed under controlled pressures to the various chlorohydrocarbon manufacturing processes at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. Chlorine...
A miniature fashion review showing the use of Acele cellulose acetate yarn in the making of stylish dresses, as part of the former DuPont Exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center, A synchronized voice made it...
Written on back: "so it appeared during R. W. Lukens lifetime. The lower end of the 'mansion' was built, it is believed, in the first quarter of the 18th Century by the Flemings. In 1757 the property passed to the Coates family who added the upper...
Text from back of image: "The Good Year baby blimp passed over New York Sept. 16th, en route to the exclusive Long Island Aviation Country Club, where it tried out a portable mooring mast, and took up club members as passengers."
Text from back of image: "A U.S. Navy blimp hovering over the U.S.S. Louisville watched the procession of 96 ships as they passed through New York Harbor and up the Hudson in the greatest demonstration of American Naval might ever staged."
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - just as contact was established over Mitchel Field, Long Island where tests were made. Contact with another plane while flying at a speed of 65 miles an hour was made eight times over Mitchel Field, Long...
