The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
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...
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...
Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
Hendrick discusses his autmobile in the first paragraph of this social correspondence. He notes that Bassett has written an account of his visit to the Boston Automobile Company which looks all right. Hendrick mentions a bursted tire and...
Caption text on photo: "This is another view of the manufacturing of continuous sheeting of 'Butacite' polyvinyl [butyral] resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind-up roll, as shown in this...
This is the point where the film base receives its coating of light sensitive emulsion. The transparent base dips into a tray which is filled with emulsion and comes away with just the right thickness of emulsion coated on it. The point at which...
This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...
Hendrick advances his belief that the burner is the problem in not getting up enough steam. Hendrick has made several minor changes all of which improve the vehicle, and believes Hunt should allow him to return the vehicle especially since it is...
Hendrick references the telegram he sent in the morning. He then enumerates his complaints which include two mechanical issues in addition to the tires. Hendrick assures the company he will pay the balance when the listed problems are corrected.
Artillery (Troops); Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Reichard, a Captain in Battery M, 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery, asks Lammot du Pont's help in getting his unit transferred out of Fort Delaware, which he calls a "horrid Post!" Reichard also mentions a visit with Henry du Pont.
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...
The world’s largest and most powerful air cooled airplane engine, the new 18 cylinder 2000 H.P. Wright Duplex-Cyclone, was announced Monday by the War department and is being inspected here by (left to right) VP George Chapline, Chief Engineer...
Building powerful engines to generate electricity- A crane man's view of the assembling of a giant turbine in the big plant of the Pelton Water Wheel Company, San Francisco. This big place, which resembles part of a bass horn, is a pipe through...
Still busily rolling out nylon is this casting wheel, part of the original equipment constructed in 1937 to make some of the first nylon. Although two large yarn plants have since gone into operation, this original wheel (made over from an engine...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
