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People ride the Water chute on Coney Island, New York

People riding on the famous water chute ride at Paul Boyton's Water World,Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York. Flags fly over the structure. Large vehicles carry passengers up to to the launching point, where they board small boats and ride down on a flume of water. Photographed by Edison Company photographers using a portable camera.

Date: 1896, June
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071511
Buildings, traffic, automobiles and pedestrians on a wide street in Coney Island, New York.

Traffic in Coney Island, New York. Views of a wide street showing large buildings, traffic, automobiles and pedestrians. Lamp posts along the street. People walking down a store-lined and concession-lined street. Brief view of the Whip and the Top boardwalk amusement park rides operating and spinning.

Date: 1918
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071845
Rotating "Top" ride with cars moving along outside its track and people enjoying the ride in Coney Island, New York.

Entertainment in Coney Island, New York. Amusment park ride "The Top" is seen in operation: A large round tilting and revolving structure with cars moving along its outside track. Wide and close-up views of the ride. An elephant moving in the foreground. People enter the cars. The ride in operation.

Date: 1918
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071846
Airplane ride with cars swinging from long cables and people enjoy riding "The Whip" in Coney Island, New York.

Entertainment and amusement park rides in Coney Island, New York. Airplane ride featuring cars swinging from long cables. The cars (or planes) being swung around corners. "The Whip" ride in operation. People enjoy riding.

Date: 1918
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071847
Dr. Albert Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt being typed in Long Island, New York.

A 1946 re-enactment showing Dr. Albert Einstein's letter to U.S. President being typed on August 2, 1939, in Long Island, New York. A typist types Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Roosevelt. The letter references recent work by doctors Fermi and Szilard on producing a nuclear chain reaction, and its possible use as a weapon in an atomic bomb. He urges that the administration be watchful and ready for quick action on the subject.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074404
Patients seated on mattresses on the floor of a crowded room in a state hospital at Ward's Island in New York.

A state hospital at Ward's Island in New York houses 7,236 patients into the space for 4,885 due to lack of funds. Interiors of the building shows people seated in chairs. Patients lying on beds in a crowded room. Some patients seated on mattresses on the floor.

Date: 1930, October 13
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075510