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Reenactment shows early 20th century U.S. research in gas turbines that contributed to development of turbojet airplane engine

Views of Cornell University where mechanical engineer, Stanford Moss, conducted research into gas turbines as part of his doctoral thesis work in 1903. Dr. Moss later joined the staff of General Electric Company. During World War I Dr. Moss is called to Washington DC to discuss, with the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), development of a turbo supercharger for airplane engines. View of a biplane with turbo supercharger mounted on top of radial engine. Animated diagram illustrating workings of a turbo supercharger. Using a supercharged engine, the U.S. Army Air Services established an altitude record of 36 thousand feet. (The pilot, flying without supplemental oxygen, passes out and doesn't regain consciousness until the airplane has fallen about 30 thousand feet.)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063981
The new (circa 1951) GE jet engine plant at Lockland, Ohio. Engines being assembled. Various aircraft using GE engines

Views of the new (1951) GE jet engine assembly plant at Lockland Ohio. Animated description and U.S. map showing numerous suppliers across the country that contribute parts for the jet engines assembled at the GE Lockland plant.Views inside the plant, with engines being assembled. GE staff members, including chief engineer, Donald F. Warner, are seen in the plant. Various U.S. jet warplanes taking off, including: Hughes XF-91; North American F-86D Sabrejet ; Martin XB-51; North American B-45 Tornado; Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber; and Convair B-36.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063988
Television broadcast shows a U.S. Air Force officer being interviewed about Unidentified Flying Object in the United States.

Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Book headlined 'Flying Saucers and the United States Air Force'. U.S. Air Force official in an interview says that the U.S. Air Force is not hiding anything from the people. Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Base in Ohio. Articles from outer space displayed on the table.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064065
Navy sailors being briefed on enemy attack by officer aboard a U.S. ship in the Pacific Theater (WW2)

Fleet of United States ships underway. Chief Petty Officer camera man using motion picture camera on ship deck with tripod. Officer briefs sailors with a map in front of them. Lietutnant points out coastal areas on map. Sailors on deck performing welding. Sailor sharpens bolo knives aboard the ship using grinding wheel. Two photographers or camera men, one chief and one enlisted, in conversation on ship deck and examining a motion picture movie camera and a still camera. The officer smokes a pipe. Lieutenant turns on sound of the intercom. Coast Guard personnel below decks play card games like acey-deucey and write letters, as men listen to announcements on ship speaker.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064079
U.S. 1st Marine Division trains on assault course at Wagga Wagga, in Australia, in World War II.

U.S. 1st Marine Division undergoes training at Wagga Wagga Island in Australia during World War 2. Marines train on assault course, under fire. They advance across an open field firing with rifles and jump into a trench. Marines crawl from the trench. Explosions occur as they move ahead on the course. Wirraway trainer airplane flies low overhead. U.S. Marines cross hurdles; climb rope nets and negotiate a rope bridge over marshes. An explosion throws water high into the air next to a Marine crossing the rope bridge..

Location: Australia
Date: 1943, August 13
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064081
Air Raid Warden Sam Rankin demonstrates the use of stirrup pump during air raid drill in Arkansas, United States.

World War 2 air raid drill preparations in Arkansas, United States. Duties of grocery store owner Sam Rankin, also includes that of the Air Raid Warden. Sam Rankin demonstrates how to tie a sling on a broken arm, to a family in the city. Attics cleared in the houses. Sign reads, "National Defense needs waste paper. Save it. Sell it." Water filled in tubs and containers. The Air Raid Warden demonstrates the use of stirrup pump against fire due to bombing. A young boy fills the bucket and a woman pumps the stirrup pump. A family demonstrates the process of using the stirrup pump during fire in the house. A boy sprays water on the site. Sam, in uniform with civil defense armband, shows how to tape glass windows. A young girl wears a dress by herself.

Location: Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064137
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