Local boys build a steam-powered automobile in Jamesburg, New Jersey. Three boys make the amateur version of a Stanley Steamer auto. The boys use kindling wood to stoke a fire for steam power. Steam rises from the device. The boys hop onto their car and drive it down a road in before a gathered crowd. (World War II period).
A land cruiser, giant truck treads lightly over the ground in California. U.S. army officers watch the rolligon as it moves over the ground on its enormous low-pressure tires. The rolligon climbs the side of a building. In an impressive stunt, it runs over the inventor, William Albee, without injuring him.
The largest successful army auction of surplus war materiel ever conducted. U.S. Army surplus goods go on the auction block at Sharpe General Depot in California. Large quantity of material handling equipment, including fork lifts. Two men examine a jeep. People attend the first Army Surplus Sale conducted by public auctioneers on a public bidding basis. Auctioneer make announcements. every item was sold.
Apollo 14 mission of National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). View from the Command Module, Kittyhawk, as it makes several attempts to dock with the Lunar Module, Antares, in outer space. (It required six tries.)
Views of the Command Service module, Kitty Hawk, as seen from the Lunar Module,Antares, approaching to dock, during the Apollo 14 mission of National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). The Command Service module, Kitty Hawk, rotates gently in outer space.
U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron (ZRS-4) over Camp Kearny, San Diego, California, attempting to dock for refueling. A hundred sailors hold on to spider lines from rings on cables lowered by the USS Akron. After one ring breaks, all sailors let go except three who are pulled aloft as the airship lurches up from an updraft. One, Robert H. Edsall, falls to his death, followed by Nigel M. Henton, who also suffers the same fate. The third, Charles Cowart, manages to tie himself to the cable and is eventually pulled into the airship, safely.
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