The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Hendrick writes that he has received the new tires. He notes the new tires have the same specifications as the ones he returned. Hendrick quotes from a letter he received from Goodyear in which the company stated these tires were not made for such...
The Nylon Suite, a new deluxe feature of the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware is nylon from carpet to lampshades. In addition to such other applications as window curtains, draperies and upholstery, where nylon's varied properties have been...
Screw machine production increased by new Jones & Laughlin "E" Steel. Production of nuts, studs, fittings and other machined parts on equipment such as this six spindle automatic screw machine has been increased from 10 to 25 per cent when Jones &...
Titanium metal is ductile and readily workable, as illustrated by these sample sheets, tubes and bars which were fabricated from DuPont metal on normal steel working equipment. Titanium has excellent strength-weight ratio and outstanding corrosion...
This complicated piece of high vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the Chemical Department of DuPont is used for measuring the surface are of fine powders, such as pigments. The process involves measuring the amount of gas such as nitrogen...
This complicated piece of high vacuum apparatus in the laboratories of the Chemical Department of DuPont is used for measuring the surface are of fine powders, such as pigments. The process involves measuring the amount of gas such as nitrogen...
Historians, in a not too distant future, are likely to point out that nothing this country has accomplished since the war is of more profound importance than our recent achievements in highway construction. Especially important the all weather...
Army Ordnances two stage Bumper rocket zooms skyward from the long range Proving Ground at Cocoa FL on the first leg of its flight. When the basic vehicle, a V-2, reaches the end of it s first burning period, a smaller Wac Corporal missile will be...
This photograph which is the most remarkable marine picture ever made stands alone in a class by itself. It shows a condition at sea never before pictured by the camera. That the crew of the sinking vessel ever escaped at all is as remarkable as...
Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
Consumer spending for such items as home computers gave the economy a big lift last year and should help propel it to record levels this year and in 1985.
A long one- CP Rail's Spiral Tunnels in the Rockies is one of the longest railway tunnels in the world. Built in 1908, it is constructed in such a way that as the end of a long train enters the tunnel, the front will be exiting underneath it or...
Consumer spending for such items as home computers gave the economy a big lift last year and should help propel it to record levels this year and in 1985.
Visitors marvel at the mirror-like qualities of deep blue Crater Lake, Oregon. Rangers are on hand to tell of such wonders as Crater Lake's 2000 foot depth, its 20 square mile surface the lack of either visible source or exit for its waters and the...
Honest to goodness, this is really the largest commercial building in America. Merchandise Mart has four million square feet of floor space. Tower section alone is as large as most office buildings. If built up like most of the recent setback...
