A Jupiter rocket covered with tarpaulin towed on a roadway on a flat truck in Huntsville, Alabama.Jupiter missile erected on a stand. 'Liquid Oxygen' written on a container. Men wearing helmets turn a wheel to fuel a missile with liquid oxygen. A Jupiter missile is test fired. It rises up. Shows trail of fire at the tail end of the missile during the flight.
A film titled 'Lieutenant Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight. Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia and return'. Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight. They climb into the seat of the plane. Men aboard plane.
A biplane in flight. Plane seen flying close to the ground. A biplane stunting over large crowd in Panama Pacific Exposition. Lincoln Beachey the first stunt man adjusts his helmet. A stunt man stands on right wing of a biplane grabs curved rod under wing. He leaves the first plane, throws leg through metal loop and hangs in mid-air during actual transfer from one plane to other.
A sign reads 'Road closed'. View of a U.S. Air Force B-47 jet like the one that experienced a bomb shackle malfunction, causing the release of an atomic bomb, which fell to the ground in Florence South Carolina. Bomb was not assembled for firing so atomic blast occurred. View of wrecked house of Walter Greg, struck by the bomb. A deep 35 foot pit is formed on the land. Men inspect the damage. Air Force keeps a vigil reviewing the skies and ground for any evidence in the case.
A sign reads 'Escape Training Tank'. U.S. Navy's Submarine school in Pearl Harbor teaches underwater escape techniques. Trainees control their breadth before entering the compartment. Trainees leave a flooded compartment in a submarine fifty feet below the surface.
In Los Angeles the first electronically controlled all-automatic factory with a production line of machine tools doing precision air craft work under control of an electronic computer. View of computer controlled production automation system developed by Hughes Aircraft Company. A label reads "Hughes Production'. A woman is seen working on a keyboard. A man is seen encoding instructions to the computer and threading a punch tape onto a tape reader of the early computer system.
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