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Telemetry scientists of the Mercury-Atlas 6 in Mexico and the United States anticipate the countdown of John Glenn’s launch on the “Friendship 7”

View of a full moon. View of rotating white satellite dish at night-time. Station staff working on Kauai Hawaii tracking station, one of the telemetry stations for the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A Filipino telemetry communicator turns his head to speak to a colleague as they monitor the Friendship 7’s journey. View of a full moon in blue. View of the at Guaymas, Mexico tracking station at dawn. View of door with notice in English and Spanish saying, “Keep the doors closed critical air conditioning”, “Favor de cerrar la Puerta debemos mantener temperature constante” and “aviso- notice”. A portly Mexican scientist enters the computer room where his colleagues are working on telemetry for Friendship 7. The portly Mexican scientist gives his American colleague a reassuring tap on the shoulders. “M-A-O-T-N, status green, preceding with free-pass calibrations…” the American telemetry communicator radios. View of moon with blue hue. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Port Arguello, California. Two telemetry communicators on their computer working as they wait out the long countdown for Friendship 7’s take-off. A telemetry communicator opens a thermous, puts on a pair of headphones, and speaks. Three telemetry communicators in a computer room working. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Corpus Christi, Texas. Telemetry communicator, wearing headphones, speaking, says "roger, all systems, would you please commence pre-flight calibrations at this time since the countdown is progressing normally...." Two telemetry communicators on their desks, preparing for preflight calibration.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079055
Franklin Roosevelt nominated as Presidential candidate during 1932 Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois

1932 Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Democratic supporters carry signs with the names of US states and territories such as Mississippi, Florida and South Carolina. Keynote speaker Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky speaks to the crowd, calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, also known as the Prohibition. View of crowd in 1932 Democratic Party National Convention. William Gibbs McAdoo, a senatorial candidate of the Democratic Party for California, speaks to the crowd, nominating Franklin Roosevelt as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate with the words, "he's entitled to the nomination" during the Democratic Party National Convention. Democratic Party National Convention crowd cheering as parabolic microphones turn to catch audio. Crowds cheer during the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the 1932 United States presidential elections.

Date: 1932, July 2
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079080
Oil derricks operating in American oil fields

View of derricks in oil refineries, likely in Texas or California United States of America. A man walks near the oil derricks. At the base of an oil derrick, a rotary drilling rig is seen in operation.

Date: 1917
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078395
An atomic bomb detonates at Nevada testing ground

Atomic explosion during tactical nuclear weapons test in Nevada testing ground during the Cold War. An atomic bomb explodes near the Yucca mountain in Nevada, near the border with California. Heavy dark gray smoke cloud forms from the atomic explosion.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078685
Italian scientists conducts a class, collaborate with American colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Italian American physicist Bruno Rossi conducts a class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Bruno Rossi demonstrates a spherical object to male students. An Italian doctor collaborates with American colleagues on cancer research. A doctor retrieves a radioactive vial from a Model LS-6 lead shield (made by Technical Associates of Glendale California). A team of doctors examines a female patient for cancer research.

Date: 1957
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675079456
Tourists visit Aurora, a Nevada ghost town near the Californian state border

Tourists visit Aurora, a Nevada ghost town 3 miles from the Californian border, during a tour in the High Sierra region between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in California, United States. Two men watch a car arriving at the ghost town. A car in front of the Aurora Café in the town’s main street. Car parked in front of the courthouse of Aurora, part of Esmeralda County, Nevada. “Esmeralda” is written in front of the courthouse. Weeds grow outside the abandoned courthouse.

Date: 1937
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079633