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Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After they are stamped on the huge toggle press in the metal division of a large rubber factory, these cylindrical domes which make up half of a shatterproof oxygen cylinder, are placed on a large conveyor where they are carried to workmen who will apply the circumferential and longitudinal straps. Cylinders are used for high altitude flying as a source of oxygen. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After they are stamped on the huge toggle press in the metal division of a large rubber factory, these cylindrical domes which make up half of a shatterproof oxygen cylinder, are placed on a large conveyor where they are carried to workmen who will apply the circumferential and longitudinal straps. Cylinders are used for high altitude flying as a source of oxygen. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

A little girl standing next to a large machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a bowling ball. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Before completion of the fourth and final welding operation in the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying, all straps are subjected to physical tests to determine the strength of the weld. Occasional radiographic inspections are made to insure the quality of workmanship and materials after the atomic welding machine has brought the two halves of the cylinder together and made into one unit. The operator, looking through a specially designed dark safety glass, rotates the shell by sight to insure a perfect and uniform union of the two halves. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Once the two-half cylinders are joined together into a complete shatterproof high altitude flying oxygen cylinder on the production line of a huge rubber factory now producing metal essential for the Army, all traces of inside weld scale must be removed to prevent contamination of oxygen. In this process, a special chemical solution is drawn through the cylinder at controlled temperature and all foreign matter is removed. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Before completion of the fourth and final welding operation in the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying, all straps are subjected to physical tests to determine the strength of the weld. Occasional radiographic inspections are made to insure the quality of workmanship after the two halves of the cylinder are brought together in this atomic welding machine and made one unit. Here, the operator has just completed the union and is about to remove the whole cylinder. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After the circumferential straps are welded to the cylindrical portion, in the metal division of a large Eastern rubber factory, rough edges and accumulated weld scale are removed by a skilled workman. The twin rotary brushes, shown above, do their work on the inside and outside of the cylinder in the same operation. This process is required in the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The first step in the manufacture of high-altitude-flying shatterproof oxygen cylinders in the metal department of a large rubber factory is the forming or stamping of the shell. Stainless steel sheets are blanked or cut into discs(left foreground). Before stamping, these discs are drawn through rolls where a drawing compound is added to both sides to facilitate the forming of the shell. The 750-ton toggle press, shown above, forms a half cylinder in one powerful stroke. Once the half cylinder is formed, it is trimmed and the value-fitting hole is punched into the spherical dome. A cleaning operation later removes the drawing compound. The cylinder halves are now ready for the various welding operations. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Vallejo, California. Workman at Mare Island shipbuilding yards in his room at FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories

Firestone Memorial model. View III

STS054-01-033 - STS-054 - Crewmember in the middeck with Commercial Generic Bioprocessing experiment.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Finishing the base end of a shell

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