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Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Sierra Nevada range of California; still photo images and sketches of early railroad building.

View of waterfalls, mountains and serene lakes in California. Song in background about western United States before railroads existed there. Still photos and sketches railroad pioneer Theodore Dehone Judah, and of Chinese workers and other laborers as they work to build the railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains beginning in 1865. Pictures of early railroad building, westward expansion, and men building a railroad bridge. Train moving between mountain valleys. Still photo from May 10, 1869 of workers from the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads celebrating at Promontory, Utah, when their two railroad lines were joined together to realize the goal of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023503
Major General Edwin Walker talks with Colonel Kuhn and other officials at Little Rock Central School in Arkansas.

Major General Edwin Walker talks with Colonel Kuhn and other officials of 101st Airborne Division of United States Army at Little Rock Centrale School. They smile as they talk. General Edwin and Colonel Kuhn along with others move towards soldiers working at vehicles.

Date: 1957, October 11
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024028
Views of the wind tunnel at Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) , circa 1935

A man and a model of airplane in GALCIT wind tunnel, California, United States. The model plane is suspended in wind tunnel powered by a large four-bladed fan. Several airplane models are seen in the wind tunnel. A technician adjusts a balance, amid measuring devices outside the wind tunnel, during operation. Models of sea planes lie on a table. Man carries a pontoon model.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024266
German scientist, Doctor Friedrich Doblhoff, sits in his jet propelled helicopter at Wright Field in Ohio.

German scientist, Doctor Friedrich Doblhoff, during "Operation Paperclip" at Wright Field in Ohio United States. He sits in his helicopter (type : WNF-342 version3) having jet-propelled rotor blades. A U.S airmen, in flight suit, stands outside the helicopter in the field. The blades of the helicopter rotate, speed up, slow down and speed up again during tests.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024304
German scientists experimenting with parachutes in a vertical wind tunnel at Wright Field in Germany.

German scientists experimenting with parachutes during OSS Operation Paperclip at Wright Field in Ohio, United States. Two scientists stand upon rim of a vertical wind tunnel. 3 parachutes are tied on a pipe in the tunnel. A scientist bends a parachute with a stick and lets it expand. The other scientist near him helps him record readings.

Date: 1946
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024305
Farmer's wife and daughter feed chickens at farm in Michigan.

Farm life in Michigan, United States. A farmer and his son prepare a horse cart. They adjust harnesses on the horses. Chickens gather outside a coop. A woman and a little girl bring a bucket to the chickens. Girl empties feed with a small cane. Slate reads “Here, chick chick chick”. Chickens eat the feed from feeder. Woman pumps water from a water pump. The woman fills the self-filled water bowl for the chickens.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025816