Vintage Industrial & Engineering Ads

Industrial & Engineering Ads

Browse a collection of classic advertisements featuring machinery, tools, and engineering innovations from decades past. These ads highlight the bold designs and technological advancements that shaped industrial history.

1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s

1910s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1920s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1930s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1940s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1940 Insurance Company of North America Fire Insurance Ad - ""You're cooking up trouble for yourself""

1941 Texaco Lubricants Ad - "Texaco Serves the U.S. Navy"

1941 Clopay Window Shades Ad - "Odd name... CLOPAY What Does It Mean?"

1947 Erie Railroad Plant Location Service Ad - "THAT'S 16 BILLION DOLLARS ringing in your ears!"

1947 San Antonio as an industrial location Ad - "San Antonio's Climate Lowers Industrial Production Costs"

1947 International Minerals & Chemical Corporation industrial services Ad - "industrial empire of the midwest ... supplies America and the world with a myriad of essential industrial products"

1947 Hughes Rock Bit Ad - "The 'Impenetrable' Barrier"

1947 Vapor RADOR Anticipating Control Ad - "No Matter What Accommodations They Have!"

1947 Lykes Lines New C type express cargo vessels Ad - "LYKES NEW SHIPS – FASTER SERVICE TO YOUR WORLD MARKETS!"

1947 Pittsburgh Paints Color Dynamics Ad - "Color Dynamics"

1947 Westinghouse Electric Corporation 57 acre plant in Santa Clara County Ad - "62 New Industries during the past 42 months"

1947 The H.K. Ferguson Co. Industrial Engineering and Building Services Ad - "WORK/ABILITY SPEEDS OUTPUT, CUTS COSTS"

1947 Cleveland Industrial Location Services Ad - "THE BEST LOCATION IN THE NATION"

1947 Geon Polyvinyl Materials Ad - "Picture of a dry fly fisherman"

1947 Container Corporation of America Packaging Ad - "IDAHO — annual purchases: $300 million — mostly packaged."

1947 Foote Bros. Power Units and Aircraft Quality Gears Ad - "We Like Tough Jobs!"

1947 New York Central Freight Rail Service Ad - "KEY Executive picks New York Central for KEY Ports"

1947 Honeywell Automatic Controls and Brown Industrial Instruments Ad - "Automatic Controls for the Nation"

1947 Hercules Insecticides (Toxaphene, Thanut, DDT) Ad - "problem... solution result..."

1947 Mallory School Sound System Components Ad - "This 'Little Red Schoolhouse' Has a Thousand Teachers"

1947 John Bean Speed Sprayer and High Pressure Mast Sprayer Ad - ""Language" That Insects Understand"

1947 Galbestos Q-Panels Ad - "Rock-bound Steel and Hung in a Jiffy"

1947 Jenkins Valves Ad - "Better cut maintenance costs to the bone, boss!"

1947 Mead Papers Ad - ""CALL FOR...""

1947 Chicago and Northern Illinois Educational and Cultural Opportunities Ad - "Chicago and Northern Illinois... Rich in Educational and Cultural Advantages"

1947 Combustion Engineering Steam Generating Units Ad - "History-making power stations"

1947 Kearney & Trecker Machine Tools Ad - "NEW MACHINES—Man’s friend or man’s foe?"

1947 Art Metal Conference Desk Ad - "Makes any office a conference room in 30 seconds flat!"

1947 Clearing Mechanical and Hydraulic Presses Ad - "Putting the FINGER on Costs"

1947 Synthane Plastics Ad - "Plastics where plastics belong for resistance to corrosion and wear"

1947 Towmotor Fork Lift Trucks and Tractors Ad - "THE ONE-MAN-GANG"

1947 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Services Ad - "Labor and management agree on Los Angeles"

1947 Glidden Lecithin Ad - "So little known - So big in promise"

1947 Diamond Roller Chains Ad - "When leaders go to market, they insist on the best!"

1947 J.E. Sirrine & Co. Engineering Services Ad - "When Management and Engineer are both good ...there's an upward trend to PROFIT"

1947 National Oil Seals Ad - "A double-jointed dingbat?"

1947 Joyce Machine Company Machined Metal Parts and Assemblies Ad - "COME AND GET IT!"

1947 SKF Ball and Roller Bearings Ad - "THE RIGHT BEARING FOR THE RIGHT PLACE"

1947 Al Paul Lefton Company Inc. Advertising Services Ad - "RESEARCH... IMAGINATION... RESULTS..."

1947 Smith, Barney & Co. Investment Securities Services Ad - "The Cornfield that fed a Miracle"

1947 Babcock & Wilcox Boilers Ad - "POWER BOOSTED 60% NO ADDED FLOORSPACE."

1947 Houston Pipe Line Co. Natural Gas Ad - "Goats DO Make Good Neighbors..."

1947 Bower Tapered Spher-O-Honed Roller Bearings Ad - "How Smooth is Smooth?"

1947 UGL Gilsalume Gilsonite Asphalt Aluminum Roof Paint Ad - "Actually cools buildings as much as 15°"

1947 American Brake Shoe wear-resistant parts Ad - "THE INEXORABLE DRIP"

1947 Burroughs Business Machines Ad - "THE MARK OF SUPERIORITY IN MODERN BUSINESS MACHINES"

1947 Hagan industrial combustion and chemical engineering services Ad - "message to 8 big companies and hundreds of smaller ones"

1947 McNally Pittsburg Harmattan Preparation Plant Ad - "Over the Horizon in '47 . . . The New Harmattan Preparation Plant"

1947 Monsanto Chemicals and Plastics for Wood Protection Ad - "How to Get the 'Bugs' Out of Wood—WITH CHEMISTRY"

1947 The Austin Company Engineering and Construction Services Ad - "DESIGNED TO SAVE A FRACTION OF A CENT"

1947 Champion Paper and Fibre Company paper products Ad - "Champion Logs Shoot The Chutes To Paper"

1947 McBee Keysort Ad - "Western scores ought to be on by now..."

1948 Phillips 66 Petroleum Derivatives Ad - "EVERYTHING BUT THE SQUEAL!"

1948 76 Gasoline Ad - "Just how high are prices?"

1948 Du Pont Nylon Ad - "news about nylon"

1950s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1950 Westinghouse Tattletale Electrical Transformer Device Ad - "WHAT A TALE THIS TATTLETALE TELLS!"

1950 Baker & Adamson Boron Fluoride Ad - "How Can You Benefit From This Versatile Catalyst?"

1950 General Electric Industrial and Scientific Equipment Ad - "You can put your confidence in GENERAL ELECTRIC"

1950 Revere Copper Products for Building Waterproofing Ad - "To our Colleagues in American Business..."

1950 Beckman Automatic Titrator Ad - "Now—Simpler, Faster, Automatic Titrations!"

1950 AiResearch pneumatic auxiliary power system Ad - "POWER TO BURN...FROM AIR!"

1950 Kodak Autoradiographic Plate, Type No-Screen; Kodak Autoradiographic Plate, Type A; Kodak Autoradiographic Stripping Film, Type NTB Ad - "New materials for AUTORADIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH"

1950 DPI High Vacuum Equipment Ad - "Beauty Treatment by DPI High Vacuum"

1950 General Electric Industrial X-Ray Ad - "Here's why — Radiography cuts down rejects... ups profits!"

1950 Bell Telephone Laboratories Microwave Relay System Ad - "This 'eye' scouts new telephone frontiers"

1950 IBM Electronic Calculating Punch Ad - "Rapid Calculation of Complex Mathematical Problems"

1951 Trane air conditioning Ad - "From a dwelling for one... to dwellings for thousands Trane air conditioning serves everywhere"

1951 Anaconda Copper Ad - "COPPER... Most useful metal known to man"

1951 America's Electric Light and Power Companies Public Service Ad - "Letter from a soldier"

1951 N.W. Ayer & Son, Inc. Advertising Services Ad - "WHEN DOES GOOD LEADERSHIP PAY OFF?"

1951 American Cyanamid Company Rubber Chemicals Ad - "How many balloons in this picture?"

1951 Timken Tapered Roller Bearings Ad - "Watch the railroads Go...on TIMKEN Tapered Roller Bearings"

1953 Stone & Webster Financial, Management, and Engineering Services Ad - "S&W Men Know Finance... 'Only Stone & Webster Offers All 3...'"

1953 Speer Carbon Co. Carbon Components Ad - "Peking Man had the answer..."

1953 Reichhold Chemicals Synthetic Resins and Pigments Ad - "Today's Paints...Science's 'Synthetic' Achievement!"

1953 Hagan Ring Balance Flow Meters Ad - "They're liquid ASSETS—measure them accordingly"

1953 Pittsburgh Color Dynamics Ad - "Makes This Steel Plant Better And Safer To Work In!"

1953 Chase Brass Ad - "Reach for the BRASS pardner!"

1953 Westinghouse Selectomatic Control with Automatic Traffic Pattern Ad - "the only system that adjusts and readjusts itself AUTOMATICALLY to any traffic demand 24 hours a day"

1953 Combustion Engineering Controlled Circulation Boiler Systems Ad - "Controlled Circulation, pioneered in America by Combustion, goes nature one better"

1953 Bucyrus-Erie Mobile Trailer Hoist / Stepless-Adamson Automatic Boxcar Unloader Ad - "Two Materials-Handling Tools"

1953 RB&W precision screw-and-clamp unit Ad - "A Triple play by RB&W REALLY SAVED US PLENTY!"

1953 A.B. Dick Duplicating Equipment Ad - "The Tag-Lag problem almost had them licked"

1953 Union Carbide Carbon Brushes and Allied Products Ad - "Things are different—up there!"

1953 Hyatt Roller Bearing Journal Boxes Ad - "Streamliner speeds for freight...with diesel power and its running mate—Hyatt!"

1953 Celanese Chemicals for Building Industry Ad - "Celanese* Chemicals are basic for the Building Industry"

1953 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Industrial Property in Charleston, West Virginia Ad - "1200 Acres of Industrial Property in West Virginia Available in whole or in part"

1953 Air Reduction Company's New Calcium Carbide Plant construction services Ad - "With a background of over seventy years' experience"

1953 Vanadium alloying elements Ad - "This turtle turned into a shark!"

1953 Servel Air Conditioning Ad - "ended an argument between tolerances and temperature to speed guided-missile production at Bendix Aviation"

1953 Gaylord Boxes Ad - "Eye-Catching ATTRACTIVENESS, Easy-Handling EFFICIENCY, Product-Engineered PROTECTION, Fast-Packing ECONOMY"

1953 Crotty Brothers Food Service Ad - "How to turn a shrimp into a giant morale builder"

1953 Wyandotte Chemicals for Rayon Yarn Production Ad - "How Wyandotte Chemicals help turn towering trees into high fashion fabrics"

1953 Lycoming Precision Metalworking Solutions Ad - "Big 'doings' in metal"

1953 B&G Hydro-Flo Heating Ad - "Modern design deserves modern B&G Hydro-Flo Heating"

1953 Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler System Ad - ""Hold it"!"

1953 Du Pont nylon plastic gear couplings Ad - "Couplings of resilient Du Pont nylon plastic run quietly...solve a driving problem"

1953 Gold Bond Perforated Asbestos backed with Gold Bond Mineral Wool Ad - "Gold Bond invites you to join the Anti-Noise Club"

1953 Hufford HYDRA-CURVE Jaws Ad - "We took our cue from Mother Nature... and built FLEXIBILITY into Hufford HYDRA-CURVE Jaws"

1953 Hewitt-Robins Complete Bulk Materials Handling Systems Ad - "WHAT WE DO IN PORT DEVELOPMENT"

1953 ACME visible record equipment Ad - "There is a type of ACME visible record equipment for every record purpose"

1953 Container Corporation of America (Corporate Advertisement) Ad - "Justice is the earnest and constant will to render to every man his due."

1953 Ebasco Services Inc. Industrial Construction Services Ad - "Bond & Share’s Big Baby"

1953 General Electric Electrical Insulation Systems Ad - "Engineers apply new electrical insulations to cut system costs"

1953 U.S. Steel Quality Forgings Ad - "Meet the man with a 50,000-pound grip"

1953 Lummus Chemical Plants Ad - "Chemical Plants by Lummus... Assure Reliable Operations"

1953 Tube Turns Welding Fittings and Flanges Ad - "Welded piping guards purity in Upjohn processing systems"

1953 Trane conditioned air Ad - "Warming men who build cars...cooling folks who buy"

1953 Bell Telephone Service Ad - "The Trust You Have Placed In Us"

1953 Torrington Spherical Roller Bearings Ad - "offer you these basic advantages!"

1953 I-T-E Circuit Breaker Ad - "A revolution took place here!"

1953 Pablum Mixed Cereal Ad - "IT'S PABLUM FOR HIM - for PABLUM it's PNEUMATIC!"

1953 Allegheny Ludlum Special Electrical Alloys Ad - "Meters tell the tale but SPECIAL ELECTRICAL ALLOYS do the work"

1953 Thew Lorain Shovel-Cranes Ad - "Here's sugar for your coffee"

1953 Cutler-Hammer Motor Control Ad - "Installs easier. Works better. Lasts longer."

1953 U.S. Rubber Cutting Board Ad - "Fishy odors and bacteria banished by U.S. Rubber’s Cutting Board!"

1953 Jack & Heintz Automotive Equipment Ad - "What Jack & Heintz is doing about... ACCELERATION"

1953 Insley Type L Clamshell Ad - "Pipeline Contractors"

1953 Chrysler Design Railroad Freight Trucks Ad - "Earn four times average revenue — using Chrysler Design Railroad Freight Trucks"

1953 Rayonier Chemical Cellulose Ad - "What it takes to be a leading chemical cellulose producer"

1953 Champion Papers Satin Proof Enamel or Wedgwood Coated Offset Ad - "One stands out!"

1953 Barrett Asphalt Shingle Roof Ad - "The most important public buildings in Washington, D.C., were built to endure for generations. It is significant that these and other outstanding landmarks of our nation's capital are Barrett-roofed"

1953 Kimble Glass Block Ad - "Ever try to bend a sunbeam—Kimble can"

1953 Monsanto Pydraul F-9 hydraulic fluid Ad - "Is this trip necessary? It needn't be... with Pydraul"

1953 Superior Small Tubing Ad - "How metal's private eye identifies each suspect"

1953 Harrison Construction Company, Inc. construction services Ad - "LET'S KEEP BUILDING"

1953 Roebling Flat Spring Steel Ad - "America's finest!"

1953 Roebling High Carbon Wire Ad - "Here is perfection!"

1953 National Distillers Barrel Staves and Whiskeys Ad - "90,000 Acres of Natural Beauty ... and Barrel Staves, Too!"

1953 Worthington Air Conditioning Systems Ad - "Fully air conditioned skyscraper sets new building trend"

1953 American Cyanamid Company (careers in chemistry/chemical industry) Ad - "Congratulations!"

1953 Fenwal Electric Temperature Control and Detection Devices Ad - "What do YOU want to protect?"

1953 Crown Zellerbach Paper and Paper Products Ad - "Who makes the paper business GROW?"

1953 Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Oil and Petroleum Services Ad - "A big job...well in hand"

1953 Jones & Lamson Machine Tools Ad - "The Actual is Limited, the Possible is Immense"

1953 General American Airslide Car Ad - "for rent to shippers"

1953 Turner Construction Company building services Ad - "A MOST UNUSUAL 'SAMPLE-CASE'"

1953 Raybestos-Manhattan Conveyor Belts Ad - "Whoever You Are... Whatever Your Business An R/M Product Touches Your Life"

1953 Bendix-Westinghouse Air Power Brakes Ad - "expands to meet trucking industry demand for air power brakes"

1953 Rinshed-Mason Color Styling and Design Consulting Services Ad - "Vigorous design and fresh color styling can push your sales curve upward"

1953 Fluor Corporation Ltd. Engineering and Construction Services Ad - "This plant designed and constructed by The Fluor Corporation Ltd. Los Angeles"

1953 National Oil & Grease Seals and O-Rings Ad - "When commute trains flash overhead…"

1953 Kreolite Wood Block Floors Ad - "Resilient... Comfortable to Work Over"

1953 New Departure Ball Bearings Ad - "SKYSWEEPER - ACCURATE TO THE Nth DEGREE"

1953 Blaw-Knox Rolls for Steel and Non-Ferrous Mills Ad - "Producing the Rolls for steel and non-ferrous mills"

1953 New York Life Close Corporation Insurance Ad - "How the owners of a knitting mill took a needed stitch in time..."

1953 Harvey Aluminum Extrusions Ad - "Pattern...for service"

1953 Suntile Mottled Dresden Blue Tile Ad - "The cool blue of the Navajo dawn becomes a functional color for greater operating efficiency"

1953 Dreyfus & Co. Investment Services Ad - "America's first speculator..."

1953 Recordak Junior Microfilmer Ad - "If you have not yet taken effective steps toward an orderly solution for the vexing problem of laboratory record preservation, we have a concrete suggestion—the Recordak Junior Microfilmer."

1953 Revere Copper and Brass Welding Services Ad - "To our Colleagues in American Business..."

1953 Continental Can Company Tailor-Made Package Service Ad - "Tailor-Made Package Service"

1953 J. E. Sirrine Company Engineering Services Ad - "ENGINEERING SCHEDULES YOUR BUSINESS JOURNEY"

1953 MacAndrews & Forbes Licorice Mass Ad - "LICORICE has challenging industrial possibilities"

1953 Timken-Detroit Axles and Brakes Ad - "This hall mark of quality is known the world over!"

1960s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1960 Flintkote Ceiling Tiles Ad - "18.36 a month can get you more "fun room" for the whole family"

1960 Wood Windows Ad - "For windows that wed beauty to duty there's nothing in the world like wood"

1960 Gold Medallion Home Ad - "A total electric gold medallion home costs no more than an ordinary house"

1961 National Lumber Manufacturers Association Wood Products Ad - "there’s nothing in the world like WOOD"

1962 Humble Oil & Refining Company Energy Services Ad - "OF 10,000 MILES OF OCEAN SURF!"

1962 Lennox heating-cooling equipment Ad - "Don't be satisfied with less than LENNOX"

1962 Wood for Dining Rooms Ad - "Only WOOD brings such good taste and cheer to dining rooms"

1962 House & Home Magazine Subscription Ad - "But NOW—no other great industry is developing so many new ways to cut the cost of a better product"

1970s Industrial & Engineering Ads

1976 Community Garbage-to-Energy Program Ad - "A small town with a pretty big idea."

1978 Northrop F-18 Strike Fighter Prototype Ad - "Making advanced technology work."

1980s Industrial & Engineering Ads

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