Standing on a pile of many thousands of feet of Delrin acetal resin pipe, an employee of the DuPont Company's pipe plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma easily handles one hundred feet of the two inch diameter plastic pipe which will ultimately find its way...
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
National Tube Works, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. Manufacture of lap welded steel pipe, using Bessemer steel. Straightening rolls in which pipe is straightened and smoothed
National Tube Works, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. Manufacture of lap welded steel pipe, using Bessemer steel. Drawing illustrating the lap wellding machine in action, The skelp is heated to welding temperature and is pulled through the rolls forcing...
This scene shows pipe for the Big Inch oil line being unloaded beside the Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania. About sixty thousand pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite were used to blast a trench 2,000 feet long and eight feet deep in the...
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10A" "Willow Springs/Argo" "City Water Dept is adding a larger drain pipe 6'x8' MCI's cable is on other side of track. If we didn't move, the pipe would hit us."
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10G" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10H" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10I" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."