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Worker points out furniture design elements on graph paper and tablet computer
Worker points out furniture design elements on graph paper and tablet computer
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New camera capable of piercing fog being examined by its inventor and ship commander in NY City
Inventor of camera Flavel Williams, on right, standing next to his camera as he poses with SS Manhattan ship commander A. B. Randall for photo opportunity, Randall talking to camera / three close shots of camera as Randall explains how...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Guglielmo Marconi in Hawaii, 1933
Gov. Lawrence Judd shakes hands with inventor Guglielmo Marconi and wife Maria / closer shot of them, Marconis adorned with leis, officer behind / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Edward Armstrong with seadrome model, details pointed out
MS inventor Edward Armstrong standing beside another man behind model of his seadrome for the Trans-Atlantic Airway Service, map behind them / CU seadrome model as hand with pen points out details / CU pen pointing to details / model and...
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Albert Ratschelder in his motorized ice boat
MS motorized ice boat with blades on bottom, man starts propeller on engine spinning, two others watch / man sitting in boat probably builder Albert Ratschelder; he nods head to unseen man / he takes off in boat, man by side, boat moves...
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Demonstration of new watermelon-shaped, balloon-like all-terrain tires called Rolligons in Stockton, CA
Title "Tires on a new roll!" superimposed over truck-trailer rolling down slope on one Rolligon in front and two in rear / truck-trailer mounted on Rolligons rolling over rocks and log / shot from truck-trailer as it moves through swamp...
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The 'Crusade of Freedom' exhibits a homemade tank in New Jersey
Title superimposed on a printing press, "People & Events You're Reading About" & "On Tour - A symbol of Freedom" over a tank on a long flatbed truck / The vehicle drives across the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey with the tank...
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British engineer Granville Bradshaw invents an auto engine with only 9 parts
Title: "News of Invention - Auto Engine With Only 9 Working Parts" superimposed over engine / PAN and CU charts showing plan of engine / VS Granville Bradshaw, British engineer and inventor, picking up wooden engine model / CU Bradshaw...
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Demonstration of new amphibious helicopter called "Heli-Vector" in Briarcliff Manor, NY
Title "Newest in the air . . . One-man amphibious 'copter" superimposed over helicopter landing on water / inventor of helicopter Lewis McCarty and another man walk up to helicopter, McCarty on right / two shots of McCarty getting on...
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Gyro-Copter inventor Igor Bensen flies Gyro-Copter from Raleigh-Durham airport, NC
Title: "Now It's The Gyro-Copter" superimposed over side view of Bensen Gyro-Copter in flight / Gyro-Copter riding along at airport / MS and CU Gyro-Copter, helicopter in flight in background / Follow Gyro-Copter taxies off / MS...
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The 100th anniversary of photography
The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art / CU "The Museum of Modern Art" words above columns at museum entrance / A boy and older woman look at the exhibit of daguerreotypes, and calotypes / photographs on exhibit // building in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Centennial of photography celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; a look at photography pioneers
Title card: "World Honors Photography's 100th Birthday" / "New York" superimposed over people at the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art / CU "The Museum of Modern Art" words above columns at museum entrance / A boy and older woman look...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Inventor Maitland B. Bleecker performs ground test of his new helicopter in New York City
Title card: "To fly straight up! New York, NY - New helicopter (Curtis-Bleecker helicopter), built to rise vertically, comes out of hangar for first ground test of motors" / men pushing helicopter across tarmac past parked plane / two...
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Thomas Edison meets with a businessman and works on his inventions.
Thomas Edison meets with a businessman and works on his inventions.
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Dr. Robert Goddard successfully launches a rocket in 1930 in the New Mexico desert
Dr. Robert Goddard successfully launches a rocket in 1930 in the New Mexico desert
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This MIT Engineer Built His Own Bionic Leg
Dec.02 -- At MIT's Media Lab, researchers are developing prosthetic limbs that users can control with their minds, making a robotic foot move as seamlessly as a biological one.
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Teenage inventor, Victor Scheinman demonstrates the Electro Mechanical Voice Inscriber at a science fair.
Teenage inventor, Victor Scheinman demonstrates the Electro Mechanical Voice Inscriber at a science fair.
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Manufacturing of vinyl discs in factory. Filmed in 1958.
Clip 4 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Production of vinyl...
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Inventor Thomas Edison pours liquids into beakers.
Inventor Thomas Edison pours liquids into beakers.
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Thomas Edison punches in on an office building time clock.
Thomas Edison punches in on an office building time clock.
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Four men carry a rocket; physicist Dr. Robert Goddard assembles it.
Four men carry a rocket; physicist Dr. Robert Goddard assembles it.
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Thomas Edison works in his laboratory and removes his eyeglasses for cleaning.
Thomas Edison works in his laboratory and removes his eyeglasses for cleaning.