Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by means of series of nuclear detonations. A technician places polystyrene pads on plate which is shock absorber for Project Orion model. Technicians try to fix plate on model. Effects of explosion on shock absorber plate are tested. A model suspended from a tower. One, two and three-shot test of model by making explosions. Operation of the multiple charge ejection system.
Testing for small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by means of series of nuclear detonations. Operation of the multiple charge ejection system. A five-shot free flight test with a model weighing 250 pounds.
Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by series of nuclear detonations. Flight tests with a model weighing 250 pounds. A model going aloft for a three-shot flight and making a successful parachute landing.
Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by a series of nuclear detonations, called nuclear pulse propulsion. A successful six-shot flight test of a Project Orion model is seen.
Camera pans over still images of late 19th and early 20th Century immigrants to America. One group photo shows men standing around women seated. Voice of an old man, from Liverpool England, narrates as camera shows more views of immigrant families. Scene shifts to that man speaking of the hardships and poverty of immigrants he witnessed passing through the port of Liverpool, England.
European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.
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