Different steps in the fabrication and installation of steel pipes during the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. Pipe sections near a plant. The pipe sections transported from the plant to the dam site on a trailer driven by a truck. The truck trailer with the pipe section on a path. Rocks in view behind the path. Motor vehicles behind the trailer. The trailer arrives at the dam site. A cable way across a canyon for taking the pipe sections to position. The cables of the cable way anchored to the canyon walls. A tower above the canyon. An operator controls the cable way from the tower. A man operates the hoisting machinery controlled by motors. A steel head tower at the site. A man on a tower. A cable carriage on a rope. A man comes down a line on the pipe section. Pipe sections carried by the cable carriage across the dam site.
Transportation and installation of steel pipes during the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. A pipe section is lowered into a canyon by cables. Cars carry the pipe sections into a tunnel. Workmen watch the procedure. Men at the entrance of the tunnel. The pipe sections are taken into the tunnel for installation. Work underway inside the tunnel. The workmen work on pipe sections. A man climbs up the section by a ladder. Other men at work on the section.
Boulder Dam site where installation work of steel pipes and concrete work is going on in the United States. The Boulder Dam site in view. Work under way in a tunnel. Rail cars bring concrete to the dam site. Construction underway at the site. Concrete taken in buckets transported by a cable way is dropped into interlocking columns. Men in the columns. A skid way in view. The structure of the dam which has risen to a considerable height. A U-shaped structure also in view.
Different parts of Boulder Dam in the United States. Four cylindrical gates of the intake towers which function as inlets to supply water to turbines and outlet works. Cliffs on either side of the dam in view. Two spill ways, each one equipped with four drum gates. The path on the bridge on the dam visible.
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan with his grandson, John Bryant Leavitt, at his Winter home, "Villa Serena," Miami, Florida. Bryan , seated on dock, fishing with his grandson, also fishing, beside him. In unrelated sequence, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen aboard a vessel in winter. The snow falling. Franklin Roosevelt with other men on the deck of the snow covered vessel.
The United States of America in 1917. Scenes of Lyndhurst, New Jersey after January 11, 1917 explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland. Suspected cause of explosion was sabotage, allegedly committed by Germans during World War I. Smoke from buildings on fire at night after an ammunition depot explodes. Flames rise high from the buildings. Widespread destruction. Debris on a railroad track the next day. People pick through devastated buildings and barren area flattened by blast. Views of crater filled with artillery shells after the explosion. Damaged window panes of buildings and a railroad car at D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (later Lyndhurst). DL&W railroad train car 605 parked. Railroad Shops with broken glass everywhere from explosions. Men point to shell that is embedded in the side of a railroad car. View of artillery shell lodged in a door. Next scene is from a different time and place, in Perth Amboy, in October of 1918 after an explosion at the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant made many families homeless. was called the Morgan Depot Explosion. Homeless women, children, and men sit in a town common area. The refugees eat. U.S. Army soldiers patrolling on Smith Street in Perth Amboy in front of stores damaged in the explosion. Entrance to Michaels & Co. shop among damaged stores on Smith Street.
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