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Eleanor Vadala and Dr. Earl Hayes at the Naval Air Material Center

  • 1959-Mar-19

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Eleanor Vadala, chemist, and Dr. Earl Hayes, U.S. Defense Department, examining a display of airship fabric produced at the Naval Air Material Center. Ms. Vadala demonstrates the threads on an airship model while Dr. Hayes looks on. Several wall displays highlighting the rubber and textile branches of the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory's High Polymer Division are also visible.

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  • 10 in. H x 8 in. W
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  • Box 1

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United States. Navy, and Naval Air Engineering Center (U.S.). “Eleanor Vadala and Dr. Earl Hayes at the Naval Air Material Center,” March 19, 1959. Photographs from the Papers of J. Hartley Bowen, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9019s2486.

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