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Unloading of tensile sheet from mold
- Circa 1949
View of a worker removing a tensile sheet from a mold used in the hydraulic press at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The hydraulic press is a 200-ton capacity…
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Mooney Viscometer at the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
General view of the Mooney Viscometer in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. At the laboratory, the viscometer was used to determine the plasticity and scorch rate of…
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Rubber Compounding and Vulcanization tools
- Circa 1949
Set of rubber compounding and vulcanization tools and knives used in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. This photograph was included in a 1949 Naval Air Experimental…
- Creator Of Work Naval Air Experimental Station, United States. Navy
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Rubber, Tools, Vulcanization
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Closing operation on hydraulic press
- Circa 1949
View of a worker closing the hydraulic press in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. This unit is a 200-ton capacity Williams-White Moline machine equipped with three…
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Hydraulic Press in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
General view of the hydraulic press in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. This unit is a 200-ton capacity Williams-White Moline machine equipped with three 24" x 24"…
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Steam Vulcanizer in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
General view of the Steam Vulcanizer in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. Also known as an autoclave, the vulcanizer was use to cure, i.e. toughen or harden polymer…
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Calender sheeting operation
- Circa 1949
View of two engineers, Stanley Bilker (background) and Ralph Harper (foreground), operating the calender sheeting machine at the the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The…
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Extrusion of a half-inch diameter hose on tuber
- Circa 1949
View of a worker holding a piece of rubber tubing as it is extruded from the tuber machine in the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. This tuber, a variable speed H.P. Royle…
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Dumping of mixed stock from Banbury Mixer
- Circa 1949
View of a worker dumping mixed rubber stock from the Banbury Mixer at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mixer was used to break down and mix rubber…
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Banbury Mixer in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
View of the Banbury Mixer used in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. The mixer is a Farrel-Birmingham Co. size B Banbury Mixer with a 25 H.P. motor and four-speed…
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Banbury charging operation
- Circa 1949
View of a worker inserting rubber stock into the Banbury Mixer at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mixer was used to break down and mix rubber…
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Cutting operation for cross blending of ingredients
- Circa 1949
View of a worker cutting rubber stock from the mixing mill at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mill was used to mix rubber stocks or warm mixed…
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Final blending by passing stock through rolls endwise
- Circa 1949
View of a worker passing rubber stock through the mixing mill at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mill was used to mix rubber stocks or warm mixed…
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Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
General view of the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Two workers and an assortment of machinery and scientific apparatus, including…
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Mixing Mill at the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
View of the mixing mill used in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. The mill is an Adamson 6" by 16" two-roll machine powered by a 7 1/2 H.P. motor with chain drive.…
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Eleanor Vadala and C.A. Cassola working with radioactive material at Aeronautical Materials Laboratory
- 1959-Dec-10
Color photograph of Eleanor Vadala, Chemist, and C.A. Cassola, Division Superintendent, working with a barrel of radioactive material at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Ms. Vadala…
- Creator Of Work United States. Navy, Naval Air Engineering Center (U.S.)
- Subject Women in science, Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.), Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Radiation, Women employees, Naval Air Engineering Center (U.S.), Women chemists, Chemists, Vadala, Eleanor, 1923-
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Testing of new developments in hydraulic systems
- 1958
General view of workers testing the features of new hydraulic systems at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Two workers are seen turning valves on the machinery while a third worker looks…
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Aeronautical Materials Laboratory test site trailer
- Circa 1966
Three chemists from the Naval Air Engineering Center (Philadelphia, Pa.) posed in front of the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory test site trailer bound for Florida. The chemists are identified as follows (from left):…
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Incorporation of ingredients with rubber stock
- Circa 1949
View of chemist adding unidentified ingredients to rubber stock in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. The primary purpose of the laboratory was the production of…
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Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- 1963-Mar-28
Color photograph showing two technicians removing a plastic dome from an unidentified machine in the Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center.
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Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory
- Circa 1949
General view of the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Two workers and an assortment of machinery and scientific apparatus, including…
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Rubber Laboratory at the National Air Engineering Center
- 1965-Aug-04
General view of the Rubber Laboratory at the National Air Engineering Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. At left, Technician Armand Rindone operates an unidentified machine before a group of observers. The…
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PK-2 Pararaft Kit display at the Naval Science Symposium
- 1959-Mar-18
General view of the PK-2 Pararaft Kit display at the Naval Air Engineering Center's Naval Science Symposium. Laboratory Technical Director J. Hartley Bowen, Jr. (right, wearing glasses) is seen explaining the Pararaft…
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Autoclave at the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory
- 1950s – circa
General view of an autoclave, used for the fabrication of plastics, at the Naval Air Engineering Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. In the foreground, Laboratory Technical Director J. Hartley Bowen, Jr.…
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Polymer Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- 1968-Apr-19
Group photograph taken to mark the development of the NARPOL aircraft coating system at the Naval Air Engineering Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory, Polymer Division. NARPOL is a partially fluorinated…