Convair B-36 Peacemaker takes off from Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. The aircrafts taxis into parking area. Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircrafts parked at Walker Air Force Base.
Narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. Light passes through a glass. Prism causes the light to reflect in other direction. Animated picture of magnifying lens. Workers making glassworks in the Bausch and Lomb Company in New York, mixing sand and glass and then stirring of the molten mass in a furnace. Prince Rupert test of a glass drop. The glass mixture is dropped on ground for test and hammered. Cooling of large pot containing molten glass. Large tongs used to remove clay pot from furnace, and then pot covered with insulating material. Pot broken away after glass is cooled . The big piece of glass is broken into small lenses. Workmen examining and choosing lenses for grinding. Grinding of lenses with polishing agents. Animated picture of lenses in a microscope and the change of the course of the rays of light to show the larger virtual image. Assembly of a microscope. Microscopic view of various germs including typhoid and diphtheria. An unborn chicken in an embryo, viewed through the microscope. Blood circulating in a frog's foot, through the microscope. Malignant blood cells. Crystallization of various chemical elements viewed in the microscope.
Man drives a "pocket edition" racing car inside Empire State Building in New York, United States. The Racing car enters elevators and turn in the corridors of the building. Aerial view of the Empire States Building. Man drives on the roof top.
Physician of the 1st United States Marine Corps Medical Battalion performs surgery on a wounded U.S. Marine in a tent at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, within the Solomon Islands archipelago. Surgeon prepares instruments for operation. Patient is given anesthesia via inhalation. His back shows large cut swabbed with antiseptic. The patient is given intravenous injection. Surgeon performs a thoracotomy incision on patient's chest to remove shrapnel from his thoracic cavity. The lung is visible in the wound as a retractor is placed to expose the inside of the chest. The surgeon removes the shrapnel and places it on piece of cloth. Surgeon reapproximates the ribs using wire suture. Chest tube is inserted. Doctors dress the wound with gauze. Attending medical staff wipe face of patient and doctor with clean cloths. X-Ray of the patient shows pieces of shrapnel in his chest.
Image of test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico during World War 2. View of the Oak Ridge Tennessee bomb fabrication plant and various other buildings of Y-12 complex involved in the Manhattan Project. Post Office erected for employees in the Oak Ridge community. Men and women scientists and war worders enter the plant, passing after security check. A citizen looks at a Knoxville Courier newspaper headline about the atomic bomb drops in Japan, seen on the bulletin board. Exterior view of the 184-inch cyclotron laboratory building at the University of California. Professor Ernest Lawrence at a panel board in his laboratory. Clouds of smoke from a atomic bomb explosion.
Atom Bomb Explosion in New Mexico. Heavy black cloud of smoke rises from the atomic bomb explosion. Fire rises with flares in the sky. (World War II period).
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