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Bandleader Aviator Roger Wolf Kahn, makes daring low altitude pickup of mail in Norfolk, Virginia.

Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)

Location: Norfolk Virginia USA
Date: 1931, April 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026605
Construction of an iron beam at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

An iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for use in New York City's Empire State Building. A huge ingot is brought to required temperature in a soaking pit at blooming mill. The ingot is picked up and put into a trolley. It is rolled into a belt and rolling operation starts. It is reduced to slab and taken for reheating.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026626
Iron beams rolled into plates at rolling mill of Universal Plant Mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

An iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Empire State Building construction in New York City. Hot ingot at plate rolling mill. Hot iron slab rolled into cover plates for columns at Universal Plant Mill. Slabs are rolled in machine. Then it passes on a cooling table. Cold iron plates on the table.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026627
Iron beams take shape of rough beam at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Iron beams under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Empire State Building of New York City. Carnegie beams rolled into sections. An operator controls the rolling of the beams with a lever. Hot ingot takes shape of rough beam. Shear crops ends of beam.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026628
Iron beams given final shape and length at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building in New York. Iron beam under construction at Beam and Column Finishing Mill. Iron beam rolls at machine for desired shape. Operator handles the operation with levers. Final rolling of beam. Beam is given exact specification for desired length by passing it from hot saw. Sparking due to the cutting of beam.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026629
Iron beams in fabrication plant at American Bridge Company's Plant in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Empire State Building construction in New York. Plian plates and finished sections sent to American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge in Pennsylvania. Iron beams at fabrication plant. Cranes place beams and workers at Plant handle beam to be placed at right place.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026630
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