Inspecting the creel that fed the laboratory staple drawing machine
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R. W. Peterson (later governor of Delaware), G. A. Kinney, D. J. Lehmicke
Reproduction from an original photograph, February 1947
Gift of Joe Labovsky
Research chemists and engineers work on a machine for making nylon staple, a soft yarn. The many threads came together to form a rope (tow) and were fed into rolls running at different speeds. The tension caused irregular breaks in the individual fibers of the tow, but the yarn remained continuous.
