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Few biplanes and a Ford single engine aircraft take off from the Ford Airport, at the Airplane Reliability Tour in the U.S.
Airplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. A biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. A few people beside the aircraft. The starter flags off the biplane. The biplane taking off. Several biplanes flagged off one after the other by the starter. People on the airfield watch the biplanes taking off. A monoplane with number '23' written on the fuselage flagged off. The biplane taxiing on the field. A biplane taxiing on the airfield and taking off. Two biplanes taxiing and taking off. The Ford single engine aircraft on the airfield. A few men wheeling the aircraft preparing for take-off. The Ford aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off. The aircraft in flight.
Methods used for laying telephone lines in earlier years in contrast to the modern methods used in later years in the U.S.
Telephone facility construction in the United States. A picture showing a man digging a hole for a telephone pole in 1894. A picture shows several men raising a telephone pole in 1895. Men using a tractor to pull telephone lines in the later years. A tractor with auger drilling holes for the telephone posts. A derrick (out of sight) placing a post in the hole. A man standing beside the post guiding it into the hole. In 19th Century, crews of men are seen manually digging trenches on the sides of the road in a city street for laying telephone lines. In contrast , a man operates a powered trenching machine along a street, while helpers watch, Houses in view along the side of the road.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson's contribution towards the New York-San Francisco telephone line in the U.S.
Telephone line construction between New York and San Francisco in the United States. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell talking into a telephone while opening the New York-Chicago telephone line on October 18, 1892. Several men standing beside Dr. Bell. A donkey with a saddle on it. A man loading the donkey with devices. The man leading the donkey which is carrying the devices to be fitted on a telephone post in a hilly area. Several men erecting telephone posts while laying lines joining New York and San Francisco to the Bell System in 1915. View of a bear climbing down a telephone post. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell attending the opening of the transcontinental telephone line in New York on January 25, 1915. Several AT&T executives sitting on both sides of Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell repeated the historic first sentence transmitted on March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you", on the telephone to Mr. Watson in San Francisco. A picture showing Thomas A. Watson, Dr. Bell's assistant in 1876, at the opening of the transcontinental telephone line. Mr. Watson replied to Dr. Bell, "It would take me a week this time, Dr. Bell".
A contrast between the old and the modern methods in telephone lines laying procedures in the United States.
Telephone line laying methods in the United States. Pictures of several men digging ditches and laying telephone lines. Men standing beside the ditch. A few men laying telephone lines using modern methods. Men at work and a tractor beside them. A man using an equipment to dig a man hole.
Telephone lines are laid overhead and underground in the United States.
Telephone lines laid in the United States. A man at work on a telephone post. View of telephone cables laid over head. A tractor used to pull telephone cables beside a field. A ladder on the tractor. A man operating an equipment. A few men at work beside a man hole. The men unrolling a heavy duty cable from a huge holder. A tractor with equipment parked beside the men. A man at work with telephone wires beside a wall. The telephone wires kept in rolls. View of pipes along the walls.
A cable ship laying a submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States.
Submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the United States. A cable ship at sea during the laying of the submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States. A few equipment on the ship. View of the submarine cable in the sea from the cable ship. Men at work on the cable ship. The cable being pulled by several men at a Cuban port. U.S. President Warren G. Harding, seated with other officials, during the commemoration of the completion of the cable to Cuba on April 11, 1921 in the United States. Harding and the officials talk on telephones using the newly completed cable line to Cuba.