Delegates from The Pan American Highway Commission arrive in St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota. View of cars and buses from the commission parked in front of the Minnesota State Capitol Building. The group is welcomed by Minnesota Governor J.A.O. Preus (Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus). The group descends the stair of the Capitol building with Governor Preus and then poses for pictures with him. Group seen visiting the engineering laboratory at University of Minnesota, and then attending graduation ceremonies at the University of Minnesota. Graduates in cap and gown process during the commencement exercises.
Minnehaha falls in Minnesota. Visitors watch the falls from a viewing platform. (Filmed by Edison Company in June, 1897, and copyrighted July 31, 1897)
Minneapolis-Honeywell controls for Dyna-Soar airplane mockup at Martin Plant, Denver. View of etched electronics circuit card with components mounted. Minneapolis-Honeywell miniature gyro components table being partially assembled to show the placement of components. Minneapolis-Honeywell inertial platform on a table. An engineer spins it on gimbal mounting.
United States Senator Robert Alphonso Taft in New York City. Senator Robert Alphonso gets into a car. Young American boy selling newspaper on street. Senator Robert Alphonso buys a newspaper from him and gets into the car. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota working in the office.
Minneapolis-Honeywell engineers work on Dyna-Soar controls in the United States. Engineers at Minneapolis-Honeywell test accuracy of the digital gyro torquing-technique. A man operates a control console. An engineer sees through an eyepiece during the gyro-torquing test. View of inertial platform being tested.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit sites in Minnesota. View of world's largest open-pit iron ore mines in Hibbing Minnesota. Giant steam shovels,mining train, railroad tracks are seen. View from high up in Duluth looking down at Lake Superior. View of freighter in Lake Superior just off the shore at Duluth. Loading of iron ore into hull of the iron ore carrying freighter "General Orlando M. Poe" at dock in Duluth. Train cars carrying ore sit atop a bridge over a pier in the water. Ore seen sliding down chutes from the railcars into the waiting freighter. Views of Duluth's Aerial Bridge (an Aerial Transporter Bridge) in action spanning the sandbar known as Minnesota Point (or Park Point), as designed by Thomas McGilvray. This is the bridge before its redesign as an Aerial Lift Bridge. The Bridge's Gondola is seen moving from one side to the other.
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