From a control room 100 feet long at the Belle, West Virginia plant of the DuPont Company's Ammonia Department, operators handle production equipment for the entire nitrile building from a central location. Operator Howard Lowe here checks a gauge...
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
A proposed Lend-Lease package of compressed dehydrated potatoes is show at left with each cube individually wrapped in cellophane and the entire dozen cubes over wrapped in cellophane. This would then be placed in an outer container shown at right....
Weighing only 10 pounds, this portable roll film developer will process 100 feet of film in approximately 40 minutes. The entire housing, mounting plate and reel spindles are made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin.
Weighing only 10 pounds, this portable roll film developer will process 100 feet of film in approximately 40 minutes. The entire housing, mounting plate and reel spindles are made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin.
This dealer display model washing machine developed by The Nineteen Hundred Corporation, of St. Joseph, Missouri, allows prospective customers to observe the entire washing operation. The tub of the machine is made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin...
A welcome innovation in the printing industry is this etching machine made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin. The transparent plastic, which replaces heavy stoneware previously used, allows the operator to observe the entire etching operation.
This new type of outdoor sign, made with plastic faces, is expected to cause a new trend the in the outdoor display industry. Inexpensively lighted with cold cathode tubes, the sign glows brightly and evenly as the Lucite acrylic resin faces...
Here is a sample of wall paper, half of which has been treated with 'Ludox' colloidal silica. The entire surface has been heavily soiled with ordinary house dirt sweepings, then wiped with a clean cloth. The treated half emerges fresh and clean,...
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
Powder is dried and polished in glaze mill, shown in photo, where coating of graphite is also applied to protect it from moisture. Tumbling in large drums for 8 hours accomplished entire operation. Finished powder then goes to pack houses, where it...
Nitroglycerin is made in nitrating house by mixing glycerin with nitric and sulfuric acids. This is most critical operation in explosives plant; equipment enables operator to drown an entire charge in water, if necessary.
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
High tenacity rayon yarn, a specific DuPont development which was made available to the entire industry without charge as a contribution to the national security in WWII was introduced in 1936 under the trademark Cordura. The yarn was brought...
Rayon tow, manufactured by the DuPont Company, is here being fed into a Perlok tow-to-top machine. The bands of continuous filaments are broken between the sets of rollers at the right without ever losing their original parallelism. In the...
Written on back: "The Cover: A familiar landmark on W. Lincoln Highway in Coatesville is the Lukens Steel Company bridge. After dark, the glow of the Lukens sign high up on the Open Hearth combines with the flash of headlights from passing cars to...
225 South Canal Street; Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst and White; Date built: 1925; On back: "This majestic new railroad terminal occupies the entire block bounded by JAckson Boulevard, Adams Streets, Canal and Clinton Streets. It furnishes...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
