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.
A film on technological advancements, innovations, and inventions in the United States during the industrial age and industrial revolution. An actor portraying Benjamin Franklin talks to other men. A man explains to him how a wireless is operated. Benjamin Franklin actor at a telephone switchboard. An operator hands him earphones. Franklin listens. A radiophone in operation. A recording being played on a phonograph. Closeup view of the needle on the phonograph while the record is playing. Franklin listens to radio. Two men, standing near a biplane aircraft, operate a battery-powered Aldis lamp. (Slate incorrectly refers to Heliograph, which uses the sun as light source.) One man uses a sight to aim the lamp at the intended recipient of the message. The other man, holding the battery, sends coded message by operating a key on the battery box. Biplane in flight overhead signals back. Franklin seated at a desk writes in candlelight.
Hereford cattle farming in the United States. Cattle graze on the farm. A barn, a windmill and a farmhouse are seen in the background. A cowboy seated on horseback. Cowboys herd the cattle back to the corral. A cowboy on horseback looks on. Hereford cows moving on the field, tended by cowboys.
Farming in the United States. A horse drawn cradle cuts wheat. Farmers work in the farm. They arrange wheat in shocks.
A timber forest in the United States. Tall trees in the forest. Lumber workers and woodsmen cut trees. Fallen trees in the forest and along a way. Wooden logs on a horse drawn cart with massive wheels of roughly 10 or 12 feet diameter moving through the forest. Men walk across the forest. Exterior of a mountain lodge log cabin house. A man and a woman enter the house and other tourists are seen near a lodge. Other people seated inside the house are talking. Men working at a lumber mill atop giant stacks of lumber in Johannesburg, Michigan (Otsego County). Buildings along the side of the street in downtown Johannesburg, Michigan. Early model Ford cars parked outside the Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store building. Line of lumber workers walk near the company store building on a wooden ramp or sidewalk.
A forest in the United States. Aerial view of the forest. A man seated in a Ford car drives it across fields and in the forest along a dirt road. A forest fire (possibly intentionally set to clear an area). Smoke columns rise. Cables placed around a stump and another tree and the stump and tree are pulled out of the ground. Lumber workmen cut off the roots of trees.