Refine Your Search

Adak Alaska USA 1943 stock footage and images

- Showing 17377 to 17382 of 27381 results
Hoover cabinet bids farewell to Secretary of Labor James J Davis as he retires from his office in Washington DC, U.S.

U.S. Secretary of Labor James J Davis retires from his office in Washington DC, United States. Hoover cabinet bids farewell to Davis. U.S. President Herbert Hoover and Davis pose along with other officials. Hoover , Davis and other officials seated in chairs. Officials stand behind them. They pose.

Date: 1930, November 20
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077336
American race car driver Willard Prentiss crashes his car while participating in a race in Phoenix, Arizona.

An auto race being held in Phoenix, Arizona. American race car driver Willard Prentiss drives his car along a race track. Trees and buildings in the background. The car crashes against fences. People run towards the car.

Date: 1930, November 20
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077339
Technological advancements in the world and discovery of electricity by Benjamin Franklin in the United States.

A film titled 'The Message' on technological advancements in the United States. An Indian runs through woods. Different forms of signaling are used for short distance communication. Native American Indian sends smoke signals. Three sailors send signals with semaphore flags from the top of a building. Mail delivery system. Mailmen in horse-drawn sleighs. Actor portraying Benjamin Franklin looks out of a window at lightning. He discovered electricity. He stands in an open field with a kite and a key. Other great inventors utilize electricity to develop telegraph, telephone, wireless and the like. A ticker tape, a telephone switchboard and a radio in operation.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077341
Women convey messages from an operating table to a central point with belts in the United States.

A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of belts to convey messages from an operating table to a central point. Women operate a multiplex system. They put a messages on a belt. Telegrams are routed by use of pigeon holes. The telegrams are dropped down a chute and are pigeon holed by a woman. Time is stamped on all the telegrams with an electric clock. A woman stamps the telegrams. Women put the routed telegrams in a carrier. The transmission of a message.

Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077342
Men operate a ticker and a woman operates a piano keyboard type ticker in the United States.

A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of fast stock ticker tape machine for sending New York quotations on a long distance circuit. A man operates a ticker machine. A fast stock wire sends stock quotations. Men look and work at a ticker tape. A woman operate a piano keyboard type ticker.

Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077343
Men operate telegraph keys and an automatic perforator and transmitter in the United States.

A film on technological advancements in the United States. Messages from London, England to New York, United States are received on siphon recorders and are transmitted by a Morse sounder and are forwarded to all points in America. A man operates a telegraph key. A recorder in operation. Students are trained at a training school at a cable station. Manual sending and receiving of a duplex to and from England. A man with earphones receives messages. A man places a record on a machine. An automatic perforator and transmitter sends 100 words per minute. Operators at keyboards. A tape is fed through a machine.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077344