Obsolete American trolley cars from New York used on Vienna street car lines. Trams on tracks. Men remove planks from the front. Notice on tram. Man hangs onto light on tram front. 'Southern Blvd' and 'Third Avenue Transit System' written on trams. A tram is towed. Trams move on tracks as men watch.
Conductor converses with concert master violinist onstage, before a performance. Musicians begin to play under the baton of the conductor. Musicians dressed formally. Instruments, music stands and music manuscripts clearly seen. Soloist Paul Wiggenstein plays the piano, with left hand only, on stage. Right sleeve of his jacket hangs limp at his side. Soloists play violins. Audience seated in concert hall. Wiggenstein and the conductor taking bows after the performance.
A hotel in Vienna introduced miniature Walkie Talkie to provide better service to its customers. The guests can take their all important calls on the place. Hotel staff and guests talks on the Walkie Talkie. 04 August 1958.
German Professor Eugen Sänger conceived of a rocket-propelled airplane in 1934. View of his sketches and notes.View of a workshop, close to his home, where Sänger developed his ideas. It is a nondescript building with wooden exterior and "Deutsche Raketenflug-Werft, Vien1934" (German Rocketflight shipyard, Vienna,1934) scrawled on its door. Professor Sänger and an assistant are seen in doorway of the workshop. Interior views of machinery. Blueprint cross-section of Sängers first Rocket motor (the S.R.1) from 1932. Drawing of test facility arrangement from 1932. Drawing of the S.R.2 rocket motor from 1933, with high pressure liquid oxygen cooling. Drawing of testing apparatus and arrangement from 1933, including Bosch fuel injection pump.
Rocket cooling investigations influenced rocketry pioneer, Professor Eugen Sänger's design for his rocket motor, S.R.3. View of his drawings and notes from 1934. Display of mechanical parts from the S.R.3. Items comprising test apparatus for the rocket motor, with various parts labeled. Mechanical Testing setup in Sänger's work shop and instrumentation, labeled in German, showing things such as motor thrust, pump pressure, liquid oxygen level, etc. The first burn test on March 15, 1934. Sänger stands in doorway of his workshop in Vienna, using a long pole to initiate the burn. Various views of flames emanating from the prototype rocket motor during the burn test. A revised sketch of the S.R.3 prototype rocket motor. Test of this version with flames barely visible due to complete combustion, during start-up and operation.
Drawing of "L-Rocket," dated January 5, 1933. Professor Eugen Sänger's S.R.6 Rocket motor from May 23, 1934, in which the combustion chamber is the same design as the slim nozzle of the L-Rocket. Actual parts of the S.R.6 motor. Plan of Rocket motor S.R.7 from May 21, 1934, with fuel inlet cooling by coiled pipe to the nozzle jacket. Second version of S.R.7 from June 5th, with cooling in the outer shell. Drawings of Versions three and four of the S.R.7. and scenes of the actual hardware held in Sänger's hand. He unscrews part and points out the features. He points out the cooling coils around the combustion chamber. Another version is similarily displayed after he removes its outer shell.