The Magill jewelery shop in Detroit, Michigan. A window of the two storey building with jewelery items on display. Engraved sign in front of the shop: 'Magill Jewelery Store. Young Henry Ford worked evenings, repairing clocks and watches in this shop. 'Baker Street Detroit'
Wright brother's cycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. The building with signboard on its entrance 'Wright Cycle Co'. A cycle made by the Wright brothers on a display window of the shop. Signboard outside the shop reads 'Wright Cycle Shop', Here the Wright brothers made bicycles and began work on their first plane.
Wright brother's workshop where they began work on their first plane in Dayton, Ohio. Original machinery, conveyor belts and drilling machine inside the shop. First Wright aircraft engine on display. Propeller blades and components of four cylinder engine. The wing section of aircraft on table.
Wright brother's workshop where they worked on their planes, United States. Writing room and desk of the Wright brothers. A typewriter near the writing desk. Photograph of Wilbur Wright on a wall. Interior of bike shop. Few early bicycles at the shop.
Wright brother's workshop where they worked on their planes, United States. Ford trophy which was awarded to Wright brother for their contribution to science and aviation. Photographs on wall behind the cabinet of the trophy.
Summary of events after World War II. Statistics shows reduction in armed forces after WWII. Reduction in arms shows submarines, ships and other arms. Bombers are destroyed. Blasting planes on airfield. Junk piles and wreckage of equipment. Factories are converted to peacetime production. Workers operating various machinery in factories. Delegates seated in the UN assembly. Andrei Gromyko walks out of a debate on the Iranian question. The U.S. proclaims the Marshall Plan. Various delegates at Paris meet including Winston Churchill. Animated map of Europe demonstrates the expansion of communism and the iron curtain post WW2. Supplies for Europe are loaded on ships at docks as part of Marshall Plan. Reconstruction work progresses in Europe. Farmer rides new American tractor (Massey Harris tractor) away from ship docks and back to his farm. Communists demonstrate and blockade Berlin. Russians reinforce blockade. U.S. planes flying supplies to blockaded city in Berlin Airlift operation. U.S. military planes landing on airfield of Germany. Berlin Blockade is lifted by Russians.
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