VulcanizationMold1941
Worker operating an automatic vulcanization mold at Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio. The mold is closed by pushing a button, which starts several operations. First the airbag is filled with live steam which circulates during the entire process; next an automatic timer sets itself for the proper length of time and temperature; next pressure is exerted to squeeze the tire into the mold pattern.
- Date
- 1941-12
- Photographer / author
- photographer.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 528 × 420 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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