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Inventor Thomas Edison's Black Mariah movie studio occupies a field in West Orange, New Jersey.
Inventor Thomas Edison's Black Mariah movie studio occupies a field in West Orange, New Jersey.
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Inventors demonstrate solar battery
Title card: "Battery Powered by the Sun" / miniature Ferris wheel powered by a lamp aimed at a solar battery / CU battery / inventors - physicist Gerald Pearson, engineer Daryl Chapin and Calvin Fuller, chemist / demonstration of how...
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Henry Ford and Thomas Edison go on a camping trip with friends.
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison go on a camping trip with friends.
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Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
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Thomas Edison turns the lever on a film camera as Henry Ford watches.
Thomas Edison turns the lever on a film camera as Henry Ford watches.
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Henry Ford and his son Edsel look at a globe in their workshop.
Henry Ford and his son Edsel look at a globe in their workshop.
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A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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Henry Ford stands next to Thomas Edison.
Henry Ford stands next to Thomas Edison.
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Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
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Henry Ford holds and plays with his grandson, Henry Ford II.
Henry Ford holds and plays with his grandson, Henry Ford II.
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German inventor Gustav Baumm test-drives his new streamlined motorcycle in Munich
Title "Like a torpedo - 20 records set by novel motorcycle!" superimposed over shot from moving car of Gustav Baumm driving motorcycle with its fuselage down highway / motorcycle comes to stop as two mechanics rush up to it, they lift...
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Henry and Edsel Ford examine a Ford Cabriolet.
Henry and Edsel Ford examine a Ford Cabriolet.
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Thomas Edison at 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration at the Edison Institute
CU Thomas Edison in his later years / Edison stands with back facing camera as he listens to President Herbert Hoover at the 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration of the 50th anniversary of Edison's invention of electric light, held at...
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1920s footage of Thomas Edison with visitors at his West Orange laboratory
Thomas Edison seated at roll-top desk with cubbyholes jammed with papers; a visitor arrives, bows, and they shake hands, then he leans to speak into in Edison's ear / Jumpy footage of Edison posing and giving the man a document / Edison...
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Plan to fight Great Depression by paying workers scrip is tested in Hawarden, IA
Title card: "Whips Depression! Novel plan provides work and makes money for Hawarden, Ia." / dollar scrip being printed as inventor of plan Charles Zylstra looks on / close shot of scrip / Zylstra sitting at desk looking over scrip /...
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Thomas Edison signs over factory where he made his first electric lamp to Henry Ford for the Ford Museum in Detroit
Title card: 'Ford Gets Home of Electric Lights - Mazdabrook, N.J. - Old Edison Factory Goes to New Museum in Detroit' / MS crowd mingles outside Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Glass House, small old factory where Thomas Edison made his first...
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Atomic battery inventors discuss and demonstrate their creation
Dr. Ernest Linder and Paul Rappaport, co-developers of the world's first atomic battery and both staff members at RCA Laboratories, sitting at table and SOTs discussing atomic battery, show parts of atomic battery on poster, and...
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Henry Ford and Charles Sorensen walk together on a dirt track.
Henry Ford and Charles Sorensen walk together on a dirt track.
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Automobile industrialist Henry Ford
CU Henry Ford, wearing fedora which casts shadow on his eyes / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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Footage of inventor Thomas Edison in US compiled on 86th anniversary of his birth
Title card: "In tribute to Thomas Alva Edison on the 86th anniversary of his birth February 11th 1847" / Edison posing for photo opportunity / Edison sitting in chair on lawn reading newspaper next to business magnate Henry Ford on his...
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'Prince Michalikais' attempts stunt with jet pack
Title card: "Rocket - Inventive Genius shoots in the works" / A man in a fedora assists Prince Michalikais in donning a 'jet pack' on his back; a close view of the assistant adjusting explosive packs / Michalikais leans over and the...
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Dr. William Thaler Demonstrates Laser Beam
Dr William Thaler, a physicist at Georgetown University, demonstrates his laser beam / Thaler stands behind his desk looking at laser beam device / interrupts light beam using a piece of paper / CU Thaler's face / CU beam device.