A machine set up as rival to Wright Brothers' biplane in the United States. An early model type aircraft showing rotor attachment between each wing. The airplane does not successfully take off.
Gold medals given to the Wright Brothers for their contribution to the field of aviation. Gold medals awarded to the Wright Brothers by Aero Club of France, Aero Club of the United Kingdom and the International Peace Society in the year 1908. the medal awarded by the U.S. Congress.
Gold medals given to the Wright Brothers for their contribution to the field of aviation. Presentation of gold medals to the Wright Brothers by American Aero Club shows U.S. President William Taft, Orville and Wilbur Wright and other members attending the medal presentation at the White House in Washington DC, United States on June 10, 1910. View of the Aero Club of American Gold Medal which was presented. View of medals presented to the Wright Brothers by the Institute of France and the Royal Society of Art in Great Britain.
Safety measures to be undertaken while working. Boxes are loaded in a hand truck in the United States beside a warehouse. The boxes fall on a passerby due to being carelessly loaded on the hand truck. A worker carefully lines up the boxes on the truck. Inside a factory plant, a worker rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before operating a large drill press in the factory. View of a large platform machine being operated by a giant pulley. A foreman views the pulley and the worker stops the machine. The pulley is disengaged and a man approaches with safety barricade pieces to place around the pulley while it is worked on. Slate indicates, "Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it is dangerous to the eyes. Use goggles and be safe. A worker working without goggles is then seen near a furnace. He covers his face with his hands and runs away from the furnace. A maintenance worker partially disassembles and then attaches a new guard over a large grinding wheel in a factory.
A large reinforced box in a plant yard in the United States. The cover on the box rises higher with successive detonations. A building in the background. Smoke from the chimneys of a factory.
The largest Direct Current Electrical Control Board in the world, located in the United States. Safety devices around the electrical control board. The devices include rubber mattings, insulated fences and circuit breakers. A man walking along the fence.