DuPont Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol manufactured by the Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall NY in the above plant, finds many unique and varied uses, ranging from oil resistant flexible hose to a knitting size for nylon hosiery. This versatile...
Correspondence regarding payment for passages of Hannah Size, Biddy Thornton and family, William Steel, Houtton, Connor, and Smith families, Catharine McCullen and family, Robert Beatty, John Cowan, James Russel, Thomas Dougherty, and John Bonner....
Andrew Carnegie's Pittsburgh Steel Works, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The artist exagerated the size of the converters by a factor of 4 to 5 times the actual size.
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at...
A boon to the summertime hostess is this transparent table cover of polythene, a new plastic which protects the cloth beneath it but does not hide the gay pattern. Laundry bills are thus reduced, for spots and stains don't penetrate the cover and...
This photograph demonstrates the exceedingly fine particle size of Ludox colloidal silica, a new product of the DuPont Company. This picture was taken with an electron microscope. The magnification is 25,000 diameters. This high magnification was...
Total cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went...
This complicated array of pipes, stills, tanks and steel structure is a portion of the Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol plant of the DuPont Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall s NY. Some idea is gained of the intricate equipment required for the...
Solvent recovery unit in Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol area at Niagara Falls NY plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. This versatile product finds use as a water resistant adhesive, textile warp size, paper size, emulsifying agent,...
Written on back of image: "The pattern being transferred to its individual color rollers is being reduced from the enlarged plate size of the design to its normal size." "We have twenty-five machines. The cost of these units run from $1500.00 to...
Sizing is systematic shrinking of the formed hat bodies to proper size. In the Sizing Department of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, the bodies are repeatedly dipped in hot water, which causes the fur fibres to shrink and knit closely....
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A navy F2H-2P Banshee photo plane equipped with a forward firing aerial mapping and reconnaissance camera installed on its nose, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9). It banks in its approach, levels off, gets a cut from the landing...
