Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. Women pick cotton at a cotton farm in United States. Bales of cotton taken on hand carts. Animation shows the use of cotton thread inside a telephone's transmitter.
The Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington DC. Parade of 5000 suffragists down Pennsylvania Avenue, led by Inez Milholland, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, on the eve of President Wilson's first inauguration. Groups of women, mostly dressed in white, with signs and banners pass by on horse-drawn floats, on foot, and on horseback. One large sign says "Women of the Bible Lands."
Thomas Edison operates a movie camera, evolved from his kinetoscope invention. He makes a movie image of Henry Ford, seated in a chair in front of the camera.
Man demonstrates how rubber is wasted during rash driving by quick brakes and rapid turns on highway. A Chevrolet Car stops suddenly leaving tire marks. Man showing rubber particles.
Repeated scenes of a car making high speed turns in front of a stadium in Akron Ohio near the Goodrich Rubber Company plant. Text 1940 carved in stone above stadium entrance. Car tires make screeching sound during turns, demonstrating how rubber is wasted during rapid turns. Scenes of same car repeatedly driving from road over curb. Large white lettered sign on ground in background reads 'AKRON'.
At the Goodrich Rubber Company plant in Akron Ohio, workers load large aircraft tires onto a truck that has been backed up to a loading dock. Each tire is nearly as tall as a man and is rolled onto the truck and then hoisted into place by a group of workers.
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