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Painting a derrick, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Notice lack of safety belts. Painters say that safety devices slow them down too much

Painting a derrick, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Notice lack of safet...

Public domain image of a romantic landscape with windmill, Netherlands, 16th-17th century artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A suggestion box serves as idea headquarters at the Link Aviation Devices plant, Binghamton, New York. The war production drive headquarters offers national certificates and citations for ideas of outstanding value to the war effort and recommends that plants make awards for meritorious suggestions

A suggestion box serves as idea headquarters at the Link Aviation Devi...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Springs and devices for measuring their tension and strength]

[Springs and devices for measuring their tension and strength]

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, engraving, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank hollowed from a tree and a windlass still in operation. Farmers in this region have to make many of their own devices because of lack of funds to purchase manufactured equipment

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank ...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. To the left is a portion of the panels containing metering devices and to record the operations of generators such as this, which power a rolling mill

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. To the left is a portion of the p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, power plant, electric generator, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenuity transformed the basement of this appliance shop at 2622 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, into a war industry, smiles. Dockas today was packaging the last of 150 radio control devices manufactured for the U.S. Army Signal Ccorps, while W.R. Stephens, left, Minnesota manager of the War Production Board (WPB) contract distributions branch, and H.C. Timberlake, former manager who helped Dockas get his contract, look on

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gene and her friend using General Electric Heating and Cooking Devices: young woman heating food in an electric, silver?, serving dish

Gene and her friend using General Electric Heating and Cooking Devices...

120389 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ads; Cooking; Woman; Household appliances; Shelf.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Streetcars - testing devices for saving lives on car fenders]

[Streetcars - testing devices for saving lives on car fenders]

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ordinary seaman Jackson becomes a D.E.M.S seaman gunner. After a four months' course at a naval training establishment, ordinary seaman Jackson became a seaman gunner on board a merchant ship, a member of the Navy's Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships Service. D.E.M.S gunners and gunners of the Maritime Regiments, soldiers who now serve beside them, have destroyed or damaged 228 enemy aircraft since the beginning of the war. Equipped with a great variety of new weapons and anti-aircraft devices, the D.E.M.S Service has grown from a nucleus of 1,300 men to nearly 20,000 trained seamen gunners and gunslayers. Soldiers originally recruited from the Army as a temporary augmentation, later took the name Maritime Regiments, thus reviving and carrying on the 17th century regiment of that name. Jackson, now a D.E.M.S seaman gunner arrives to join his first ship

Ordinary seaman Jackson becomes a D.E.M.S seaman gunner. After a four ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes are stacked by an employee of a large Eastern concern whose product will shortly switch from amusement devices to electrical equipment for Uncle Sam's army and navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the right record for you on the jukebox are assembled by young girls working in a large East coast plant. After the last jukeboxes rolled off the assembly line, this company will use the same machines and operations to manufacture electrical control devices for the Army and the Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Wind direction and velocity are measured by these devices. The instruments are known as wind vanes and anemometers

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Wind direction and velocity are measured by these devices. The instruments are known as wind vanes and anemometers

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Responsible post. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. A post, which probably carries with it more responsibility than any other in the field of aviation, is held by Richard C. Gazley, New Chief of the Safety and Planning Division of the Bureau of Air Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce. All problems relating to aircraft, airports, air transport, education, international relations, power plants, and radio development come under his direct supervision. One of the most important phases of his job is the developing and testing of all new safety devices for aircraft. In this picture, Gazley is shown inspecting an audio meter for testing radio receiving apparatus.

Responsible post. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. A post, which probably c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Brooklyn, New York. Ventilating engineer testing safety devices in a factory

Brooklyn, New York. Ventilating engineer testing safety devices in a f...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this 130-ton capacity die stamping press will soon be applied to far more important production. This employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern is shown stamping out mounting frames for jukeboxes. When the boxes have been completed, this company will devote a large percentage of its time and space to production of electrical devices to be used by the Army and Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical ski...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...

[Sketches of various mechanical devices]

[Sketches of various mechanical devices]

Illus. in: Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century .... London : J.H. and J. Parker, 1859. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western te... More

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). These are special jigs and chucks designed and made at Wilbarger and Sons Shop, Harrisonburg, Virginia, for special war production jobs. The workers in many thousands of little shops such as this are using all their ingenuity to do what they can to speed the job of arming the men fighting for world freedom. In this shop, production, generally speaking, has been speeded up tenfold by such special devices as these

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). These are special jigs and chucks...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this multiple drill press will soon be applied to far more important production. That's a jukebox part under the drill but as soon as the jukeboxes now in the process of completion have been shipped out, this firm will devote a large percentage of its time and space to production of electrical devices to be used by the Army and Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical ski...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Shell loading. Weighing the propelling charges of smokeless powder before they are poured into shells at a large Midwest loading plant. This precise work is done mostly by women. Mechanical devices produced in the fuse division enable soldiers in the field to delay or accelerate the explosion of a projectile. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. Weighing the propelling charges of smokeles...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried trolley track to provide scrap for the war effort is an operation handily performed by such devices as the one shown here. Pulled by a tractor, the apparatus disengages the track from the pavement and slides it back on the iron sawhorses. This photo shows the breaking up of the pavement as the old track is unearthed

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Magnetic Detection Devices (Infinetics Co. Displays anti-hijacking devices.)

Magnetic Detection Devices (Infinetics Co. Displays anti-hijacking dev...

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 23753, frame 15A. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

Gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Interferometer tests standard gages for automobile manufacturers. Washington, D.C. May 28. I.J. Fullmer of the Bureau of Standards is shown with an interferometer by means of which differences in length are measured in terms of wave-lengths of light to the millionth of an inch. A four-inch square precision gage is being compared for length with the Bureau's standard 4 inch, which is rectangular in shape. These gages are tested against the master gages which the different auto manufacturers check their measuring devices so that the parts of the cars separately made can be, when assembled, fitted perfectly. The standard gage and the master gage are shwon being compared in the interferometer, 5/28/37

Interferometer tests standard gages for automobile manufacturers. Wash...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War production drive. This huge thermometer outside a Westinghouse plant recorded the workers' purchase of bonds and stamps. Labor-management committees have reported that it is good psychology to display devices like this because both employers and employees are eager to show the public how good they are

War production drive. This huge thermometer outside a Westinghouse pla...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical skill in assembling electrical devices will soon be applied to important work. When the last jukeboxes roll off this Eastern plant's assembly lines, control devices similar to those used on the amusement machines will be produced for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical ski...

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

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used in production of file cabinets in wartime America. Slides are among the few metal parts used in this manufacture and can be clearly seen in the picture. This shot was taken in an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern whose production of electrical devices for the Army and Navy is steadily mounting. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used i...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Wind direction and velocity are measured by these devices. The instruments are known as wind vanes and anemometers

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Circular: Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, July 26th, 1853. The Director of the Mint, under the sanction of the 7th section of the act of March 3, 1853, authorising new devices for the silver coinage of the United States, and with the ap

Circular: Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, July 26th, 1853. Th...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 233, Folder 9.

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the right record for you on the jukebox are assembled by young girls working in a large East coast plant. After the last jukeboxes rolled off the assembly line, this company will use the same machines and operations to manufacture electrical control devices for the Army and the Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the ...

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

Gene and her friend using General Electric Heating and Cooking Devices: young woman seated at table, removing toast from toaster

Gene and her friend using General Electric Heating and Cooking Devices...

120391 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ads; Cooking; Woman; Household appliances; Shelf.

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right) and his father Leon Lapides, owners of the firm at work assembling signalling devices for the U.S Navy searchlights. Firm converted from manufacture of automotive accessories to ninety percent war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical skill in assembling electrical devices will soon be applied to important work. When the last jukeboxes roll off this Eastern plant's assembly lines, control devices similar to those used on the amusement machines will be produced for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical ski...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Denver, Colorado. The interior of a shipbuilding plant, showing a workman who previously worked on incubator parts and amusement park devices, now working on parts of hulls and decks of escort vessels. He and his co-workers will be invited to Mare Island, 1,300 miles away, to help launch the ships they are building

Denver, Colorado. The interior of a shipbuilding plant, showing a work...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A bulletin board serves as a central source of up-to-date war production drive information at Link Aviation Devices, Binghamton, New York. A poster urges employees to contribute ideas for speeding up production. A lunch box painted in red, white and blue is used for suggestions

A bulletin board serves as a central source of up-to-date war producti...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

And now we have the "wool meter." Speaking of taxi-meters, yardsticks, and other measuring devices, the "wool meter" has been introduced by the Bureau of Standards. Described by the forbidding name "eriometer," this new instrument is intended to measure the diameter of wool fibers and thus indicate the relative qualities of the fleece entering into our wool clothes. H.J. McNicholas of the Textile Section is shown with his invention, which employs the principle of diffraction of light

And now we have the "wool meter." Speaking of taxi-meters, yardsticks,...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Circular: Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, July 26th, 1853. The Director of the Mint, under the sanction of the 7th section of the act of March 3, 1853, authorising new devices for the silver coinage of the United States, and with the ap

Circular: Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, July 26th, 1853. Th...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 233, Folder 9.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Crated for shipment these shell ejectors for six-inch forty-seven caliber naval guns are a far cry from the peacetime production of the merry-go-round plant in which they were made. These plants have temporarily shelved its production of amusements devices to do its part in the war effort, protecting the right of Americans to enjoy the thrill rides it formerly made. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Crated for shipment these shell ejec...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brooklyn, New York. Ventilating engineer testing safety devices in a factory

Brooklyn, New York. Ventilating engineer testing safety devices in a f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

To supplement bulletin boards, war production drive headquarters suggests that each plant have at least one information stand located near the plant's exit doors. This stand is used at the Link Aviation Devices plant in Binghamton, New York

To supplement bulletin boards, war production drive headquarters sugge...

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