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Employee using extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1949-Jan
Close-up view of an unidentified employee pouring raw material into the hopper of an extruder in the Plastics Laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. The material is subsequently extruded…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Cary Model 11MS Recording Spectrophotometer
- 1947 (Introduced)
- Manufacturer Applied Physics Corporation
- Subject Varian, Inc., Spectrophotometer, Applied Physics Corporation
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Neil Grover servicing alphabetic tabulator at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
Close-up view of IBM Corporation customer engineer Neil Grover servicing the electrical relays on an alphabetic tabulator in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan.…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation, Grover, Neil
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Machine tabulating room at Dow Chemical Company
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of unidentified employees at work in the machine tabulating room at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Per an article in the December 16, 1947 edition of The Brine Well, the…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
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Machine Room in Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of the Machine Room in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several employees and machines, including tabulator, sorter, and interpreter units, are…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
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Key punch operators at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of key punch operators (front to back) Ilene Allen, Janet Dyer, Jesse Haven, Marion McFadden, and Margaret Preznowiak transcribing written data into tabulating cards in the Tabulating Department at the Dow…
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Yarn windup for production of synthetic fibers
- 1947-Mar
General view of a yarn windup used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. The components of the windup are identified as follows: windup rolls (left); gear box (center); and…
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Six-position staple spinning unit
- 1947-Mar
Two views of a six-position staple spinning unit used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. Various components of the spinning unit are visible in the photograph, including a pump…
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Pump block for six-position spinner
- 1947-Mar
Close-up view of the pump block of a six-position spinner used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. During the production of nylon, melt from the spinning machine typically…
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Measuring tension on drawing machine used for production of nylon
- 1947-Mar
Three close-up views of tension measurements taken on various components of a drawing machine, including the draw, creel, and crimper, used during the early stages of nylon production and research at DuPont. The…
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Measuring cell used in production of synthetic fibers
- 1947-Mar
Two views of a measuring cell used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. Typically, such cells were placed in an electrolyte bath as part of a metered device used to measure the…
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High-speed creel guide
- 1947-Mar
Detail view of a high-speed creel guide used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. "Creel" refers to a rack holding bobbins or spools for spinning. The photograph is labeled…
- Subject Nylon, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Machinery
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Detail view of crimper used for production of nylon
- 1947-Mar
Detail view of a type of crimper used to crimp textile fibers during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. Typically, fibers entered the machine via drive pulleys and were fed into a…
- Subject Nylon, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Machinery
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Continuous denier meter used in production of synthetic fibers
- 1947-Mar
General view of a continuous denier meter used to measure the denier, or thickness, of filaments during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. The spool of yarn to be measured is visible…
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Inspection of staple drawing machine at DuPont facility
- 1947-Feb
General view of technicians inspecting the creel (a rack holding bobbins or spools for spinning) on a staple drawing machine used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. During the…
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Inspection of autoclave at DuPont facility
- 1947-Feb
General view of technicians inspecting an autoclave located in the Polymer Wing at a DuPont facility during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research. The individuals visible in the photograph are…
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Inspecting feed to spinning machine at nylon pilot plant
- 1947-Feb
General view of technicians inspecting the feed to the two-position spinning machine used at the DuPont plant in Seaford, Delaware during the early stages of nylon production and research. The two cylindrical hoppers…
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Russ Johnson operating photostat machine in Dow Photographic Laboratory
- 1947-Jan-13
General view of photo technician Russ Johnson operating a photostat machine in the Dow Chemical Company's Photographic Laboratory. Acquired from the Engineering Department, the photostat machine was used to reproduce a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Photography, Dow Chemical Company, Photographers, Photography--Equipment and supplies, Machinery, Johnson, Russ
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Ford Bowers printing photographs in Dow Photographic Laboratory
- 1947-Jan-13
General view of senior photo technician Ford Bowers printing photographs in the Dow Chemical Company's Photographic Laboratory. Established in the 1930's, the Photo Lab took pictures for employee publications like The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Printers, Employees, Photography--Printing processes, Photography, Dow Chemical Company, Photographers, Machinery, Bowers, Ford
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Continuous polymerizer at DuPont facility
- 1947-Jan-07
General view of component parts, including a holding tank, flash tube, spinner, and finisher, of a continuous polymerizer used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont.
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Continuous polymerizer at DuPont facility
- 1947-Jan-07
General view of component parts, including a holding tank, flash tube, condenser, and finisher, of a continuous polymerizer used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. The…
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Assorted machinery for production of melt
- 1947-Jan-07
General view of assorted machinery, including a holding tank, evaporator, and auxiliary steam boiler, used for batch wise production and storage of low dew point melt during the early stages of synthetic fiber…
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Oil-Immersion Microscope
- Circa 1946
A: Microscope
Ernst Leitz oil-immersion microscope; instrument rests on wishbone-shaped base with a single beam extending from the center before splitting into two sections: an arm supporting the telescope and…- Manufacturer Ernst Leitz (Firm)
- Subject Microscopes, Ernst Leitz (Firm)
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Employee cutting powder strands at Radford Ordnance Works
- After 1940 – before 1946
General view of an unidentified female employee cutting strands of .50 caliber powder extruded from a press to the proper length at the Radford Ordnance Works in Radford, Virginia. The Radford Ordnance Works was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Employees, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Explosives, Women employees, Machinery
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Two-position tire cord machine
- 1946-Nov-27
Two views of a two-position tire cord machine used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. The hot pin and hot plate tandem apparatus used to draw various fibers is visible in both…