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...
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.)'
Citizens are preparing for any eventuality. If you could have seen the citizen soldiers drill on Governors Island with their wooden rifles you would be convinced that the men are getting ready. Most of them are pretty near prepared now. Some of...
National Tube Works, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. Manufacture of lap welded steel pipe, using Bessemer steel. Forming up pipe, ready for welding. The steel skelp is pulled through a set of dies to the round shape ready for the lap welding machine
Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
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...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows a Curtiss Hawk plane on catapult on the U.S.S. California during Pacific Coast Naval maneuvers, ready to take off."
Table of Contents: The dyestuffs industry, forerunner of what; All ready for rainy weather; A manufacturer talks about furniture finishes; Rapid transit in New York City; Umbrellas, yesterday and today; And so they chose Tontine; Beautifying the...
Table of Contents: Abililty and adaptability; Movies with stereoscopic values shown on full-stage screen; Harmonized rooms for homes; Beautiful, efficient refrigerators; Here they come; Dynamite at school; Off for the Mediterranean; Selling the...
Table of Contents: New art at the Audac show; Science joins the sales force; Something new in quarry practice; Luxurious cotton meshes, frosted with rayon; New weaves in rabbit-soft, cool rayon; Boeing wings over the west; Old Swede's bureau...
Table of Contents: Science and civilization; Another industry goes Cellophane; On the firing line; Raymond Hood, iconoclast; Problems in making auto polishes; Tunneling under Gauley Mountain; Twoels have a show of their own; Period furniture enters...
Table of Contents: The realm of tiny things; A man and a boat; Modern office equipment; Velvetex, the wonder worker; A pull and it's done; Spotlights on men's fashions; The grand Coulee Dam; What's new; Ready to play; Pedals, paddles and Pyralin;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Defense industry; War work; Ammunition; Textile industry; Lumber industry;
Table of Contents: Tighten your belt; DuPont war heroes; Big inch; Proving the ammunition; Zelan helps cotton clothe an army for action; Soldiers of the soil; Flame-testing lumber; Uncle Sam's nieces, in industry; Stop check thieves and know your...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
Includes articles: Building for the Future (About Morse Apprentice School); Cheaper Insurance Arranged; The Mount Carrol Is Ready for Her Maiden Voyage; Morse Service Wins Where Others Fail; Pictures Incidental To the Drydocking of the ...
This triple duty Super Constellation, sporting a new military look, is ready to start long haul service with the Military Air Transport Service as a convertible transport that can be quick switched to carry passengers, cargo or hospital litter...
US Coast Guard. Under the category of "Assistance to Life and Property" come the mercy activities for which the Service has become most reknowned. Coast Guard planes, cutters, shore stations, and other units are always ready at an instant's notice...
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
