Views of pipe lines for transportation of crude oil in United States. Shows a pipe line across a canyon. Workers dig trenches for a pipe line. Horse-drawn wagon loaded with pipes. Pipes stacked on ground. Railroad cars, teams and wagon in background. View of oil camp, mules, wagons, workers and a wooden bridge. Oil tank cars at a railroad yard transport crude oil. Crew at work on the deck of an oil tanker.
Separation of crude oil into various components at a refinery in United States. Crude oil in the still is divided by heat into gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil and many by-products. Animated diagram shows a tank of crude oil with fire under it and a pipe leading to a condenser. Naphtha and gasoline distillate, kerosene distillate, lubricating oils, paraffin distillate, coke and other by products are obtained. A worker shovels coke out of the door at base of the still. Workers load coke into wheelbarrow.
Modern methods of oil refining in United States. Hydrometers check gasoline for any impurity at a refinery in United States. The first vapor from the still is condensed into gasoline. It is then tested by hydrometers. Worker checks hydrometers. The impurities in gasoline are removed using sulphuric acid and agitators. Panoramic view of refinery.
Shipping 100,000 gallons of gasoline to Europe by 'tank' steamer. View of a freighter at a dock. Oil pipe lines at dock. Automobile and pedestrians on a road beside pipe lines.
Slate indicates that 200 million gallons of gasoline are used annually in the United States for power (in 1925). View of a busy city street, possibly New York City, circa 1925 with motor vehicle traffic, pedestrians and many tall buildings. Many early automobiles seen. A worker tests flash point of kerosene. Lighted candle in stuck block of paraffin (wax) showing wax or parrafin as a byproduct of petroleum. Slate indicates that petroleum provides motor fuel, common light, a lubricant for machinery and other important by-products.
USS Constitution after her fourth reconditioning at docks in Charlestown, Massachusetts. American sailors fire a canon. USS Constitution gets underway in the water. Sailors aboard the ship. U.S. flag flutters atop the ship.
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