The Testing of Airplane Fabrics
A 1932 technical report on testing airplane fabrics, issued by NASA's Technical Reports Server and drawn from its aeronautics archive for engineers and researchers. The pictures are black-and-white photographs: microscope views of flax and cotton fibers swollen in copper solution, photos of testing apparatus for tautness, elasticity, bursting and tearing strength, and round micrographs of woven fabric weaves. A designer could take the fine fibre textures and the grid-like weave patterns as raw material for textile or technical backgrounds.
