This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
"Description of the process of selecting, cleaning (by women workers), sorting, and selling sponges from the importer of sponges from the Ottoman and Greek Archipelago. Cover half-tone shows Laloux's Sponge Exhibit."--bookseller notes.
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...
A bucket in a rayon spinning machine at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The cover has been removed to show the bucket, which revolves at high speed while the rayon thread builds up as a white cylindrical cake against the inside wall of the...
A simplified V belt drive design software program needed tos olve coplex drive belt problems on location is available from Dayco Rubber Product Company. Users quickly determine correct dirve for the application, extra drive capacity, optimum drive...
Baca County CO- This abandoned farmstead stands in ruin from blasting winds which have shifted top soil from field to cover the house and improvement. The old turning plow in the foreground was left at the end of a row in the field.
Brochure for lithograph prints of the winners of the Santa Anita Handicap horse race. A lithograph of William du Pont Jr.'s champion horse, Rosemont, is featured on the front cover.
Camera construction affords easy access to components-Maintenance and replacement requirements of the new RCA Image Orthicon television camera are simplified by the streamlined arrangement of tubes and circuits and the hinged side panels and cover...
Caption text: "The Sikorsky UH-60-A Black Hawk helicopter, a utility tactical transport designed to meet mission requirements for the U.S. Army, used about 160 pounds of "Kevlar" 49 aramid fibers in each craft. At least 80 pounds of weight savings...
