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Images showing progression of ship steam propulsion from coal-fired to oil-fired to nuclear powered ship NS Savannah

Brief view of model of the original USS Savannah steam powered sidewheeler ship of 1819. View of steam plant inside a newer ship. Pistons driving crankshaft. Fireman stoking boiler with coal. View of oil storage tanks. The USS United States steamship underway. Cargoes being loaded aboard a freighter at a pier. Grain being loaded into a cargo vessel. A foreign port. An ocean liner. Engineers discussing nuclear power. Animation of atoms in motion. An early nuclear power plant installation in the United States. An open view of fuel rods in a nuclear reactor (referred to as an atomic furnace by the narrator). View of Control room in nuclear power plant with many lit dials, levers, buttons, and controls. Engineers placing cutouts of reactor on diagram of ship. Model of the NS Savannah. President Eisenhower speaking.View of U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Marine architects of George G. Sharp incorporated, working on design of the NS Savannah. Cutaway model showing position of reactor inside the ship.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070684
Keel laying and construction of the nuclear-powered commercial ship, NS Savannah.

Keel laying of the nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, NS Savannah, at shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden New Jersey. Mrs. Pat Nixon, wife of Vice-President Richard M.Nixon, is seen at the keel laying of the ship, a center piece in President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative. Scene at the Babcock and Wilcox company, where steel parts are being fabricated for the Savannah's nuclear reactor. The reactor head being molded. Uranium oxide fuel pellets being manufactured. Core filled with fuel pellets being lowered into the reactor. Animated diagram illustrates how the ship's reactor and propulsion system will work.View of shock-absorbing collision protection and radiation shielding being placed around the reactor shell. views of the ship under construction in the ways at the shipyard.Views of the ship's turbines manufactured by the De Laval Steam Turbine Company. A technician uses a brush to dust the precision gears of the DeLaval manufactured turbines. Meshed gears turning.

Location: Camden New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1958, May 22
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070685
NS Savannah completes reconditioning and departs Galveston, Texas, with new crew, on tour to new ports of call

The NS Savannah is seen at Nuclear Service facility, Galveston, Texas, for reconditioning before making new port visits. Here she is delayed several months by labor dispute involving her nuclear engineering crew. Maritime Administrator, Nicholas Johnson, poses with ship's officers from the American Export Isbrandtsen lines, who are the new operators of the Savannah. The Savannah departs on a mission involving new ports of call. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson comments from his office regarding the mission of the NS Savannah. View of cargo being loaded aboard the Savannah. Views of a world globe. Views of the NS Savannah underway.

Location: Galveston Texas USA
Date: 1964
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070693
German civilians purchase and read the first American newspaper printed in Aachen, Germany.

The first American newspaper in Aachen, Germany is printed during World War II. Crowds in the streets of Allied-occupied Aachen. A U.S. General speaks as the first American newspaper to be printed in Germany is dedicated. Presses roll and the first copies are produced which are then purchased and read by German civilians.

Location: Aachen Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070697
A Chinese gun crew learns to handle 40mm guns and practice heaving lines in Tsingtao, China.

Chinese sailors are trained in the use of an LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) in Tsingtao, China after World War II. A gun crew teaches a Chinese gun crew how to handle 40mm guns. Chinese sailors practice heaving lines aboard an LST. They roll the heaving lines.

Location: Tsingtao China
Date: 1945, December 29
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070700
Gun crew on the bow of an LST while a LST convoy underway at sea off the coast of Okinawa, Japan after World War II.

Activities aboard a U.S. Landing Ship Tank off the coast of Okinawa, Japan after World War II. The bow of the LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway. An LST convoy underway. Gun crew on the bow of the LST. Soldiers pack equipment on the deck of the LST. Other landing crafts underway at sea.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, October 3
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070704
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