Operation Cue nuclear bomb testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic explosion on buildings and houses. The members of the United States Civil Defense Administration prepare for the atomic bomb test. The men take out equipment from the car parked outside a house. After nuclear detonation, the house explodes, fragments in the air. The impact of the explosion on the house.
Operation Cue nuclear test conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic bomb explosion on buildings and houses, including reinforced bomb shelters in this particular test. A number of blast bunkers or test bomb shelters on an open field. The shelters suffer damage in the nuclear bomb test and fragments fly in the air. The impact of the explosion on the bomb shelters made of cement.
Footage shot after United States battleships conclude bombardment of Japanese-held Fort Drum in Manila Bay, Philippines during World War 2. Fortified Fort Drum is seen on El Fraile Island in Manila Bay, with large gun turrets clearly visible on its top. U.S. troops and engineers had gained access to air vents on the fort top deck, pumped in oil and gasoline, and set a timed fuse. Footage shows fused explosive detonating, followed by massive explosion and black smoke as the flammables ignite.
Forests being converted to lumber industry in Northern forests of the United States. Workers sort and grade lumber with the help of machinery. The green lumber is dried and sea-soned in a steam heated kiln. Theses boards are seasoned in the open for air to circulate freely about them. Workers stack lumber sheets in piles.
United States Air Force NB-52A aircraft with X-15 under its wing takes off for a test flight in California, United States. Boeing NB-52A in flight with X-15 under its wing. X-15 piloted by Scott Crossfield releases from the mother aircraft and goes upward. Pilot speaks with ground crew members. X-15 pilot in the cockpit, wearing an oxygen mask . X-15A (56-6670) achieves Mach 2.5 at 67,000 feet. X-15 lands at Rogers Dry Lake in California.
Views of Cornell University where mechanical engineer, Stanford Moss, conducted research into gas turbines as part of his doctoral thesis work in 1903. Dr. Moss later joined the staff of General Electric Company. During World War I Dr. Moss is called to Washington DC to discuss, with the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), development of a turbo supercharger for airplane engines. View of a biplane with turbo supercharger mounted on top of radial engine. Animated diagram illustrating workings of a turbo supercharger. Using a supercharged engine, the U.S. Army Air Services established an altitude record of 36 thousand feet. (The pilot, flying without supplemental oxygen, passes out and doesn't regain consciousness until the airplane has fallen about 30 thousand feet.)
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