The five Firestone brothers all active in the tire business founded by their father, the late Harvey S. Firestone, with Capt E.V Rickenbacker at the Indianapolis Motor Race.  Harvey S. Firestone; Roger S. Firestone; Captain Rickenbacker; Harvey S....

Table of Contents: They founded an industry; Ammunition by Peters, a story of progress; Prepare your car for winter driving; Lithopone, a versatile pigment; Cotton cloth can be wool-finished; A new star in the shooting world; New freshness...

Fundamental chemical research is important in the development of petroleum additives.  This complicated looking apparatus is used by DuPont in its laboratories at Deepwater Point, New Jersey for studying rates of organic chemical reactions.  DuPont...

The First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was "here to stay" when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900.  Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to...

This home was owned by Joseph Tatnall's son-in-law Thomas Lea, who founded Lea Mills with his father-in-law.  The mills were owned by the Lea family until 1930 when they were sold and became apartments. 

The school, located on Vandever Avenue near Market Street, was founded in 1798.  The land was donated by John Dickinson and Dr. John Welsh.  Seventy-nine persons contributed $443.13 to erect the building.  It was an English and Classical academy...