Inland Steel Company in Chicago. Steel production in open hearth furnace. Faster methods of steel production. A basic oxygen furnace. Animated diagram shows the working in basic oxygen furnace. Oxygen is blown and temperature is raised. Steel scrap and molten pig iron is added. Steel worker in denim jacket. Furnace moved to upright position. Graphs show the analysis after testing. Small sample of steel is taken. Furnace is tilted and the steel pours out. Diagram shows electric furnace. Highly refined steel is produced in it using electricity. Molten steel is poured in a mold inside and gases are evacuated.
Inland Steel Company in Chicago. Steel production. A man takes sample. The steel cools and solidifies and molds are removed. In an oven steel is re-heated to be rolled into slabs. Steel slabs. Operation controlled by a man. The slab is reduced in thickness. Animated diagram shows the cooling and solidification of molten steel. Slabs are reheated at hot strip mill. The operation is computer controlled. Finishing is done in cold rolling mill. A huge oven is lowered down. Desired finish to the steel is given. Zinc coating done to make it corrosion resistant. Galvanized steel produced.
Inland Steel Company in Chicago. Steel production. Several mill steel products are rolled to square cross section called as blooms. Structural shapes given to steel. A wide variety of cross section in steel. Useful forms, shapes and sizes of steel are formed. Research work being done for better steel production. Different equipment and controls used in laboratory setting with scientists and technicians at work using chemical beakers, test tubes, microscopes and other technical lab equipment.
Exterior of steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio. Houses next to steel mill. Downtown Youngstown Ohio. Transit bus picks up passengers. POV bus traveling downtown street. Family with child exits bus. Shoe store window downtown with pedestrians. Workers entering steel mills via overhead bridges. Steam locomotive trains passing steel mills with good nat sound of whistles. Overhead crane bucket picking up iron ore. Bucket dropping iron ore into skip hoist. Skip hoist buckets moving up conveyor to blast furnace top. Workers smelting iron ore in blast furnace. Molten iron and slag pouring from blast furnace. Johnny Chonko controlling wheel to adjust blast control to furnace. Pete Zeeman, the 'blower' looks through blast furnace look glass to evaluate. Frank Melai, an immigrant from Italy, at the blast furnace. Frank looking at his Christmas tree at home with family. Frank's family opens gifts during Christmas. Frank puts a new smoking pipe into his mouth.
Point of view (POV) overhead crane view of steel mill floor in the open hearth area. Workers 'slagging' and open hearth furnace by throwing shovels full of dolomite into the hearth. Worker Tommy Hughs pours huge ladle of hot iron from the blast furnace into the open hearth furnace. Foremen Billy Reilly and John Strouse confer. John's son, Ed Strouse, seen as a high school football player on the bench during a game. High school football game in Youngstown, Ohio. Audience cheers. Several views of spectators in stands cheering. Score keepers at score board. High School Band players seen with their instruments. High school Principal Glasgow talks to student Ed Strouse. Boys in vocational class view engine of a car. Lunch line at high school cafeteria. Teenage boys and girls eating lunch at high school cafeteria. Students leaving high school at end of day.
Research laboratory. Connections made through wires in the machine. Bulbs lighted in the plant. Equipment in the plant. A man observes through an instrument. Notable feature is heavy moveable walls of shielding brick, suggesting presence of radiation sources in the laboratory.
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