A diagram compares the payload capacity between vehicles powered by lead battery versus Edison battery. A WW1 era United States battleship sailing in an ocean. Steel beams of a skyscraper under construction. Vibration testing of Edison battery to check durability under use. A man operating an electric motorized cart carrying packages crosses a train track and loses one of the packages. Animation demonstrates the benefits of the Edison Battery, noting that it can be overcharged, overcharged, and even reverse charged. Photo of Edison battery array in a control room. A ‘Mrs. Wagner’s Pies- The Wagner Pastry Co.’ Edison battery electric delivery van is started and drives in the midst of a blizzard, thus demonstrating battery resistance to freezing conditions. This is probably near Newark, New Jersey, headquarters for the company.
A photographer takes pictures of Dr. Sandcha Stepanow, a Russian-born lawyer and leader of the 600 displaced Kalmyks in Ingolstadt Displaced Persons Camp, West Germany after World War II. Dr. Stepanow meets with journalists in the camp. A Kalmyk family inside their flat in the refugee camp. A woman uses a sewing machine. The man plays with a young toddler. A woman tries on a new dress as a dressmaker adjusts the dress sleeves. An elderly Kalmyk man holds an infant playing with keys. An artist draws a charcoal illustration of an elderly man in traditional Kalmyk attire. A Kalmyk woman applies shaving cream on a man’s face at a barber shop inside the Ingolstadt Displaced Persons Camp. A Kalmyk man walks through The Kreuztor gate in Ingolstadt on his way to work. A German man greets the Kalmyk man. Displaced refugees, including a young woman, study at vocational training school in Ingolstadt. Kalmyk professor teaches in class. The Kalmyk instructor assists a man during a lesson.
Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn into the Army with the rank of Director of the United States Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The organization would later be called the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Major General Myron C. Kramer administers oath of office to Oveta Culp Hobby. General George C. Marshall stands between Kramer and Hobby as he witnesses the ceremony. United States Secretary of War Henry Stimson also witnesses the event. Hobby stands with her arm raised under oath. Hobby shakes hands with Stimson, Marshall, and Kramer after the oath taking. Oveta Culp Hobby makes short statement, noting that, "This new corps is the 1942 expression of the patriotism and courage that the women of America have always demonstrated in every national crisis." Hobby continues, “In a total war, there is a total responsibility of all citizens regardless of sex, race, or creed. Every woman must do her part. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps offers an opportunity for every woman eligible under the law to do her part.”
Explosion from nuclear blast. Destroyed houses and debris after a nuclear weapon explosion during nuclear testing by the United States. A mannequin partially covered by wood debris. Two men inspect groups of sitting mannequins. View of male, female, and infant mannequins. A man carries a female mannequin into a truck. Old and new passenger cars parked on the side of a road. Cars are marked with numbers. Cars start to drive in a convoy. Cars driving on the highway to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s Nevada Test Site, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, in Nye County Nevada. Cars are left at Yucca Flat. Joshua trees and weeds on Yucca Flat. Instruments to measure temperature are attached to the cars. A radiation film badge behind a car seat. Parked cars are stationed in various ranges from intended ground zero of shot Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear test during Operation Doorstep. A man places a female mannequin on the passenger seat of a car. A boy mannequin is seen inside the car.
Vehicles parked outside a model framed house at the Nevada Test Site before Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep. United States Civil Defense personnel gather outside the model framed houses. A KTLA news van parked outside a model house at the Nevada Test Site. Venetian blinds on house windows. Mannequins sitting in a model first floor living room and dining room. Girl and toddler mannequins sitting on the floor together. A mannequin lying in a sickbed. A pair of shoes on top of bedside table. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A scale model of a box-type shelter. Mannequin inside a shelter. A bomb tower seen from a distance. Model house and a car near the bomb tower. Outdoor shelter of reinforced concrete at the Nevada Test Site. A scale model shows the interior view of a basement exit type home shelter.
A petty officer gives a newly hired woman officer a tour of the Naval Air Station Miramar, California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer showing the hangar of the NAS Miramar to the female maintenance officer. Electronics technician checking the radar of a Grumman F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Petty officer takes his new colleague to the maintenance control desk. A man talks to a chief at the maintenance control desk. A squadron man repairing an aircraft part at the AIMD or Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment. Mechanics repair a piece of aircraft wing or tail.
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