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The new 'flying tube' airship. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Immediate commercial development of a new lighter-than-air airship of novel design, which its engineering sponsors believe will revolutionize air transportation, bringing safety, speed, load capacity, and easy maneuverability to airship performance, was announced today. Air sucked through the tube will create a vacuum in front and give a propulsive kick at the outlet. Universal joints will be located at the entrance and exit of the tube, moving in any direction of the air intake and outlet, thus steering the flying tube. The ship will be entirely metal clad and the lifting power will be helium gas in aluminum partitions. Garret W. Peck, designer and vice pres. in charge of construction, left; and Clifford C. Jones, specialist with the Inter-Ocean Dirigible Corp., right, with the working model of the ship

The new 'flying tube' airship. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Immediate co...

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Asst. Atty. General William Donovan at aluminum hearing, [at Capitol, Washington, D.C.], 1/9/26

Asst. Atty. General William Donovan at aluminum hearing, [at Capitol, ...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong alloy" aluminum rod stock as it comes from the rolling mill. This stock has been reduced to 1 3/8" in diameter

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong...

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In the stockroom of the Packard marine engine plant, Detroit, Michigan. Aluminum side rails in the foreground. In background are finished crankcases with studs assembled

In the stockroom of the Packard marine engine plant, Detroit, Michigan...

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Machinists drilling and reaming valve guide holes in aluminum valve housings for the Packard marine engine. Packard marine engine plant, Detroit

Machinists drilling and reaming valve guide holes in aluminum valve ho...

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Aluminum casting. These castings are being loaded onto a sandblast table prior to the actual sandblasting operation. Conversion of this large Midwest aluminum foundry to production of war essentials has already taken place. This factory is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret, but they'll probably end up as jeeps and airplane engines. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. These castings are being loaded onto a sandblast tab...

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Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling machine operator planes aluminum stub wing blocks in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also making open naval sights and other war essentials

Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling ma...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. These are the last aluminum and enamel ware utensils which Morris Kreider's hardware store will be able to get for the duration of the war. Usually he keeps his storeroom as well as the shelves well stocked

Lititz, Pennsylvania. These are the last aluminum and enamel ware uten...

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Transformer manufacture. These huge aluminum spheres are used to test each power transformer which is ready to be shipped from a large Eastern electrical plant. Since lightning is apt to destroy power units in the field, each transformer is given an "artificial lightning" test to determine its ability to resist the elements. These spheres are part of a setup that produces 2,500,000 volts for testing purposes. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These huge aluminum spheres are used to test ...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall plays on the baseball team at the aluminum plant

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and polishing machines, this small Eastern factory is now one of the America's myriad plants devoted to production of small machine parts for war purposes. Foreseeing possibilities of shortage of aluminum (necessary for polishing equipment), this factory's owner sought defense subcontracts many months ago, he is now operating twenty-two hours a day with a crew of thirty workers, a distinct improvement over his previous eight hours, three-worker days. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and pol...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Getting ready to pour liquid aluminum onto pigs in the cast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Getting ready to pour liqu...

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Part of an aircraft factory for the manufacture of aircraft parts on Australia. This section is engaged in manufacturing wings made from Canadian aluminum rolled in the United States and supplied to Australia under lend-lease

Part of an aircraft factory for the manufacture of aircraft parts on A...

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Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation, Flemington, New York. Exterior II

Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation, Flemington, New York. Exterior II

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Poletown Historic District, Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation, 2512 Ea...

Significance: The Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation complex is historically significant for its role in Detroit's early labor movement. This industrial complex was once the site of several vehement labor pro... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

Feminine vanity still demands attention, even in the nation's busy aircraft factories. At Cessna Aircraft Company's plant in Wichita, Kansas, Miss Mina Weber takes a quick time out for facial repair, using a gleaming sheet of aluminum in the stock room as a mirror

Feminine vanity still demands attention, even in the nation's busy air...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet aluminum for stamping into powder cans as part of the national defense production program

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Machining the "skeleton" of a waterwheel generator at the East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse electric and manufacturing company for the Watts Bar project of the Tennessee valley authority project which will supply power to aluminum, aircraft, and other war-busy industrial plants in that area

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Machining the "skeleton" of a waterwheel gen...

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One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's mechanized army involves the tapping of a pound tilting type crucible furnace to obtain flow of molten metal into the smaller pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of ...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottles with rubber diaphrams and aluminum closures at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Scrap metal and rubber help provide critical materials needed for this important work

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottl...

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A chairman receiving local citizens' contributions of scrap aluminum for the war at his store

A chairman receiving local citizens' contributions of scrap aluminum f...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for America's mechanized army is the discharge of metal from a 300 pound carrying pot into ingot molds. The molten aluminum was first tapped from a furnace into the carrying pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for Am...

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Aluminum casting. A husky Negro workman taps a 2,000-pound rotary furnace from which aluminum pours into carrying pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A husky Negro workman taps a 2,000-pound rotary furn...

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Aluminum casting. These castings have been sandblasted to clean them and remove all excess material. Two workmen of a large Midwest aluminum factory here remove the finished sandblasted castings from the turntable. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. These castings have been sandblasted to clean them a...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Pouring aluminum into pig molds at the cast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Pouring aluminum into pig ...

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Aluminum casting. To make certain that aluminum is being treated in exact accordance with specifications, this worker sets instruments to the correct temperature on heat treating controls of unit. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. To make certain that aluminum is being treated in ex...

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Aluminum casting. Ingots of aluminum, rejected for slight imperfection are shoveled back into a furnace to be recast. Here a worker is puddling the 2,000-pound rotary furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Ingots of aluminum, rejected for slight imperfection...

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Aluminum casting. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war effort, discharged from carrying pot into ingot molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war ...

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One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's mechanized army involves tapping metal from a 1000 pound rotary furnace into a 300 pound carrying pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of ...

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Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope on a large sand mold. When the parts are locked together, the molten aluminum is poured into the mold. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Aluminum City Terrace, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Town house 32

Aluminum City Terrace, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Town house 32

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Aluminum City Terrace, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. No. 33, living room to kitchen wall

Aluminum City Terrace, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. No. 33, living ro...

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Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation, Flemington, New York. Exterior I

Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation, Flemington, New York. Exterior I

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[Great Hall. View of ceiling and cove, showcasing the aluminum plating, stained glass windows, sculpture and murals. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. View of ceiling and cove, showcasing the aluminum plating...

Exhibit caption: "During the renovation of the Jefferson Building during the 1990s, it was discovered that the metallic ornamentation of the ceiling, once thought to be silver leaf, is actually aluminum leaf. W... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

Maytag Washing Machine Company. Pouring a one-piece aluminum washer

Maytag Washing Machine Company. Pouring a one-piece aluminum washer

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Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler control building. Windows on three sides and overlook terrace adjoining offer complete view of plant and surroundings. Fourth wall used for description of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program. Floor: gray-brown terrazo, divided into large squares by white metal strips. Wainscot, window sills, trim around doorway and curb at footlights brownish-red precast terrazo. Walls burlap covered, painted subdued tan. Windows aluminum. Ceiling and upper part of walls, plaster painted warm gray with warm off-white reflecting circles and cove across end (ceiling acoustic plaster). Lighting indirect. Lights in cove across end of room also throw downward, directed by lenses toward wall display and shielded by aluminum louvers. Behind curb inclined contol lens footlights and louver (aluminum) shielding air exhaust. Supply through ceiling grilles which border ceiling on two sides. Deep trim around doorway intended as shield while passing footlights. Display in gray, black and tan, keyed with general color scheme. Guard's desk of natural oak and ebomized birch, with raised ledge for visitor's registration

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler contro...

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Photo: aluminum housing - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Photo: aluminum housing - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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Workmen counter-boring stud holes for the cylinder barrel in an aluminum crank-case for the Packard marine engine. Packard marine engine plant, Detroit

Workmen counter-boring stud holes for the cylinder barrel in an alumin...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening sheet aluminum after heat treatment. This flattening operation is most important in the production of aluminum sheet for use in airplane manufacture

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening she...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Aluminum collection. A store window display in New York, New York, promoting the National Defense Aluminum Collection (July 21-29, 1941). This collection was conducted by the Office of Civilian Defense and some of the aluminum obtained will be for use in industries producing for national defense. Much of the lower grade aluminum collected which cannot be used directly for this purpose will be used to replace new aluminum in the manufacture of consumer goods, and hence release this new aluminum for use in defense production

Aluminum collection. A store window display in New York, New York, pro...

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Aluminum casting. Closeup of the bright aluminum alloy being poured into molds. There may be no more aluminum for coffee percolators these days; it's going instead toward a much more vital purpose--war essentials for Uncle Sam's armed forces. Destination of the finished aluminum products is secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engine parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Closeup of the bright aluminum alloy being poured in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

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Transformer manufacture. Ready to be sent to aluminum and magnesium plants are these power transformers manufactured by a large Eastern electrical company. Along this aisle of the plant, are other transformers in every stage of manufacture. They are essential to almost every phase of Uncle Sam's war production effort. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Ready to be sent to aluminum and magnesium pl...

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Nashville, Tennessee. Sheet aluminum being delivered in the stock room. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Sheet aluminum being delivered in the stock room...

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Ludwig Baumann, business at 8th Ave. and 35th Street, New York City. Aluminum table

Ludwig Baumann, business at 8th Ave. and 35th Street, New York City. A...

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

Washington Monument. Men examining aluminum cap of Washington Monument

Washington Monument. Men examining aluminum cap of Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States. It was... More

Washington Monument. Aluminum cap of Washington Monument with lightning rods IV

Washington Monument. Aluminum cap of Washington Monument with lightnin...

The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States. It was... More

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft.

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum departmen...

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Milling the sides of the upper half of an aluminum crankcase for the Packard marine engine. Packard marine engine plant, Detroit

Milling the sides of the upper half of an aluminum crankcase for the P...

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Rejected for slight imperfections, these piston duds will be dumped back into the furnace of a huge Midwest aluminum factory for recasting. Aluminum Industries

Rejected for slight imperfections, these piston duds will be dumped ba...

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Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted to production of essential articles for America's armed forces, pictured pouring the molten aluminum alloy into molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted ...

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Aluminum casting. Gates and risers--extraneous materials from earlier castings ready to be remelted and recast. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Gates and risers--extraneous materials from earlier ...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts for the motor of the shaver. To convert his machine to the larger grinding job, it was necessary only to exchange the normal one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel for a three-inch wheel and to increase the feed of the cooling solution. This worker was used to working to a tolerance of .0002 inches on the motor shafts so he finds it simple to attain the comparatively rough tolerance of .002 inches required on this war work. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aluminum casting. Thirty-seven-millimeter armour piercing shot used in anti-tank guns are produced in this giant Midwest factory now converted to war production. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Thirty-seven-millimeter armour piercing shot used in...

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Worker charging heat treating oven for low temperature precipitation treatment of aluminum pistons to be used in U.S. Army jeeps. Aluminum Industries

Worker charging heat treating oven for low temperature precipitation t...

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Aluminum casting. When the aluminum solidifies, it is knocked out by hammer from the ingot molds. Soon to be cast into essentials for the war effort, this metal is one of America's most vital essentials for victory. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engines parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. When the aluminum solidifies, it is knocked out by h...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for airplane tow targets are gas-welded at an Eastern plant which normally makes metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading castings onto a sandblast table in a large Midwest aluminum foundry now producing war essentials

Loading castings onto a sandblast table in a large Midwest aluminum fo...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the aluminum slab is first rolled into a sheet

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the...

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Industrial demands soar. Much of our reduced oil supply must be "earmarked" for countless war production needs, such as feeding these oil-fired rotary furnaces melting aluminum for airplane engine parts

Industrial demands soar. Much of our reduced oil supply must be "earma...

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Aluminum casting. This large sand casting is being checked to blueprints' specification by an employee of a large Midwest aluminum foundry now converted to production of war essentials. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. This large sand casting is being checked to blueprin...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Rolls of aluminum

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Rolls of aluminum

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator window of a bombing plane is made on special bending equipment from extruded aluminum shapes. The work is being done in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window screens

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator wi...

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Detroit, Michigan. The Briggs school for training women aluminum workers

Detroit, Michigan. The Briggs school for training women aluminum worke...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. In order from top to bottom and in about the proper proportions are all the ingredients used in the making of the final product, which is aluminum

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. In order from top to bott...

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A group of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photogr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

High production rate of Australian interceptor aircraft is maintained by the steady inflow of lend-lease Whitney twin row engines. This fast climbing, hard hitting addition to the Allied air strength being made in an Australian factory and includes in its structure Australian steel, Canadian aluminum and American engines

High production rate of Australian interceptor aircraft is maintained ...

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Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw working with aluminum II

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw wo...

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Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw working with aluminum

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw wo...

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Ken...

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86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-sixth Street, Urbandale, Polk County, IA

86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...

Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Arlington Memorial Bridge, Spanning Potomac River between Lincoln Memo...

Significance: As the final link in the chain of monuments which start at the Capitol building, the Arlington Memorial Bridge connects the Mall in Washington, DC with Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. De... More

Washington Monument. Aluminum cap of Washington Monument with lightning rods I

Washington Monument. Aluminum cap of Washington Monument with lightnin...

The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States. It was... More

Students machinists being shown the proper finish required on gear pockets and bearing shaft bores of an aluminum oil pump housing. Packard marine plant

Students machinists being shown the proper finish required on gear poc...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening sheet aluminum after heat treatment. This flattening operation is most important in the production of aluminum sheet for use in airplane manufacture

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening she...

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Aluminum collection. A store window display in New York, New York, promoting the National Defense Aluminum Collection (July 21-29, 1941). This collection was conducted by the Office of Civilian Defense and some of the aluminum obtained will be for use in industries producing for national defense. Much of the lower grade aluminum collected which cannot be used directly for this purpose will be used to replace new aluminum in the manufacture of consumer goods, and hence release this new aluminum for use in defense production

Aluminum collection. A store window display in New York, New York, pro...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall with his wife, Helen Louise, and daughter Peggy. Mr. Hall is a foreman in the hot rolling mill at the Reynolds Metals Company, an aluminum plant using TVA electricity. He lives in a TVA defense house at Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall ...

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One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for America's mechanized army is the discharge of metal from a 300 pound carrying pot into ingot molds. The molten aluminum was first tapped from a furnace into the carrying pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for Am...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's Army and Air Corps can be acquired. Here excess aluminum alloy is poured into a holding pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before ...

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Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defense pour a large magnesium casting. The molten alloy enters the runner box first. Magnesium is one of the most valuable metals for war production. Exact purpose of this casting is kept secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defe...

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Production. Aluminum. Stacks of aluminum plates ready for the continuous rolling operation. By this process, thickness as fine as paper-thin sheets can be formed

Production. Aluminum. Stacks of aluminum plates ready for the continuo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical analysis, to match the rapidity with which the nation arms itself, is possible through use of the spectrograph, a marvelous new machine used for study of materials through measurements of the arc of light they emit when heated. The aluminum and magnesium industries, steel companies and foundries use it for quick study of metals. Mines use it for exploration. The spectrograph will yield an analysis of seven elements in fifteen minutes determination, which would require up to four hours by old chemical methods. Three students in defense training courses at a famous mining-engineering school listen as an instructor shows them how the machine operates. Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical anal...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Adjusting the rolls on the rolling machine in order to change the thickness of an aluminum rod

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Adjusting the rolls on th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Scrap aluminum at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. The metal is segregated, placed in trucks and hauled to North America's salvage department for reclamation. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Scrap aluminum at the Ingle...

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Aluminum casting. To insure against cracking when metal is poured into it this sand-filled mold is skin dried with a gas torch, one of the many major delicate operations required of employees of a large Midwest aluminum factory. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. To insure against cracking when metal is poured into...

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