The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane circling the Sky Harbor Airport, at Northbrook, Illinois, setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards. Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert and Walter, refuels City of Chicago in mid air. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers on the nose of "City of Chicago" as he inspects an engine. Civilians look at the sky.
Thread making machine in operation in a factory in United States. Threads move over a huge machine and rolls of thread attached to one end of the machine. Cloth being made from thread at the factory.
Rubber sheets being cut off large rollers by steel arm scraping along the roller, in a factory in United States. A worker cuts off large sheets from the roller. Sheets being placed on hangers. Rubber sheets being fed into the rollers. The cut off is re-fed into the rollers.
Chunks of rubber come off the conveyor and is being dropped into bins by machines at a factory in United States. Dust rises from the bin. Three doors with Whiting, Zinc Oxide and Rubber Dust, written on them are seen.
Tanks with Sulphur and Zinc Oxide, written on them lie at a rubber manufacturing factory in United States. Piles of white sacks being carried on a hand driven cart in the factory. Two workers open the cover of the conveyor and look at the white powder dropping into a hole. Bins with Whiting and Zinc Oxide written on them are seen in the background.
A film titled "The world's telephone workshop". Opening scene shows ceremony on March 10, 1916, with Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, unveiling a plaque at the invention site of the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The plaque, at 109 Court Street, states "Here the Telephone was Born, June 2, 1875" and it notes that it was placed by The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alexander Graham Bell tips his hat to the crowd as they celebrate the unveiling. View of Western Electric Company plant in Chicago as smoke emerges from chimneys. Turbines in coal power plant. Massive group of thousands of American workers gathered together, from all walks of life, who are employed in the telephone industry.
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