A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of belts to convey messages from an operating table to a central point. Women operate a multiplex system. They put a messages on a belt. Telegrams are routed by use of pigeon holes. The telegrams are dropped down a chute and are pigeon holed by a woman. Time is stamped on all the telegrams with an electric clock. A woman stamps the telegrams. Women put the routed telegrams in a carrier. The transmission of a message.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of fast stock ticker tape machine for sending New York quotations on a long distance circuit. A man operates a ticker machine. A fast stock wire sends stock quotations. Men look and work at a ticker tape. A woman operate a piano keyboard type ticker.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Messages from London, England to New York, United States are received on siphon recorders and are transmitted by a Morse sounder and are forwarded to all points in America. A man operates a telegraph key. A recorder in operation. Students are trained at a training school at a cable station. Manual sending and receiving of a duplex to and from England. A man with earphones receives messages. A man places a record on a machine. An automatic perforator and transmitter sends 100 words per minute. Operators at keyboards. A tape is fed through a machine.
A film on technological advancements, innovations, and inventions in the United States during the industrial age and industrial revolution. An actor portraying Benjamin Franklin talks to other men. A man explains to him how a wireless is operated. Benjamin Franklin actor at a telephone switchboard. An operator hands him earphones. Franklin listens. A radiophone in operation. A recording being played on a phonograph. Closeup view of the needle on the phonograph while the record is playing. Franklin listens to radio. Two men, standing near a biplane aircraft, operate a battery-powered Aldis lamp. (Slate incorrectly refers to Heliograph, which uses the sun as light source.) One man uses a sight to aim the lamp at the intended recipient of the message. The other man, holding the battery, sends coded message by operating a key on the battery box. Biplane in flight overhead signals back. Franklin seated at a desk writes in candlelight.
Hereford cattle farming in the United States. Cattle graze on the farm. A barn, a windmill and a farmhouse are seen in the background. A cowboy seated on horseback. Cowboys herd the cattle back to the corral. A cowboy on horseback looks on. Hereford cows moving on the field, tended by cowboys.
Farming in the United States. A horse drawn cradle cuts wheat. Farmers work in the farm. They arrange wheat in shocks.