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...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Nylon; Rope industry; Textile industry;
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American Rolling Mill Company hand operated sheet mill. The roll trains are on either side of the flywheel and multi rope drive. Power is most likely a steam engine.
Nylon has more glamorous assignments but perhaps none more important than serving as this connecting link in our marine commerce. Here nylon shows its superior strength with light weight and toughness to all other fibers used or marine hawsers....
Text from back of image: 'The photo shows the disabled drifting plane Boston which came to grief on the hop from the Orkney Islands, Scotland, to Reykjavik, Iceland, just after the destroyer Billingsley, first to the rescue had thrown it a tow...
Typed caption: "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. Dr....
Text on photo: "Made under Patent No. 74,379, granted to Michael Kelly, Feb. 11, 1868. In addition to the 'thorn wires' the letter-patent specified the use of a 'rope of twisted hay or other suitable cheap material, saturated with tar or analogous...
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New York NY- This scene at R.H. Macys is typcial of what is going on in all the Metropolitan department stores. The crowds were so dense that it was necessary to rope off the section and permit so many through at a time.
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
At DuPont Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, the company also maintains a complete textile laboratory, part of which is shown here. The purpose of the laboratory is to enable the plant to keep a check on how Dacron...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
Moving down across the picture from the upper right corner, Dacron polyester fiber in rope like tow form rushes into the drawing machine (not shown) where al fib3ers will be stretched to give them proper strength. This is one of many steps through...
Neoprene sheet becomes a rope prior to cutting and packing. Here, a DuPont foreman checks texture of the material at the 50 million pound neoprene plant near Montague, Michigan. The only general purpose synthetic rubber in commercial manufacture in...
Rope or tow of man made textile fibers cut into desired and uniform lenths, varying as required for ultimate use in producing fabrics and garments. The short lengths shown here are roughly comparable to the average length of cotton.
Typed caption: Traveling? No need to leave this one at home. The yards and yards of sweeping jersey of 'Qiana' nylon take up little room when packed�will shed rumples in no time flat. The bare halter is held by a slender rope at the neck. From...
on back of print: "Matheson car is not in sight but is plowing through the bad road hauling this $10,000 French car by rope. The French car could not drive itself through the soft ground. 1907."
