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Aerial view of a mine plant in the United States.

A mine plant in the United States. Aerial view of the mine plant. Exterior of the building. Trees in the area.

Date: 1919
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076895
Coal is washed and processed at a washery in the United States.

Coal washeries in the United States. Exterior of a surface plant. Workers walking outside the plant. Aerial view of the plant. An artificial lake constructed to supply water to the washery. Men walking on the shore of the lake. Interior of the plant. Coal brought from a mine is deposited in large storage bins from which it is carried on conveyor belts to be washed. The processing of coal in a jig to separate slate and sulphur. Battery of jigs in operation. Men working in the plant. A concentrating table washing fine coal. Bucket elevators raising the washed coal, water running out from the conveyor. A thickener is used for the recovery of fine coal. The fine coal is deposited to the bottom from where it is drawn through, allowing the water to overrun the top to be clarified and reused. A car at the washery carrying waste material to dump the pile.

Date: 1919
Duration: 6 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076896
Loaded coal cars are hauled by a rope and mechanical haulage of mine cars on a slope outside a drift mine in the U.S.

Coal mining in the United States. A notice on a board. Men read the notice. It reads: 'Notice to men seeking employment. Unless you are willing to be careful to avoid injury to yourself and fellow workman, do not ask for employment. We do not want careless men in our employ'. A small drift mine. A loaded coal car being hauled by a rope. Mechanical haulage of mine cars on a slope. Loaded mine cars passing on a track. Haulage of the mine cars. A river barge is loaded.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076897
A laboratory demonstration in the U.S. showing varying properties which can be imparted by heat treating pieces of steel.

A film titled: 'The story of heat treatment of steel' on the heat treatment of steel in the United States. Interior of a laboratory. Varying properties which can be imparted by heat treating different pieces of a steel rod are demonstrated. A man seated at a desk. He stands up and holds a rod of untreated steel. The rod is treated using different heat treating methods. Four treated rods are placed on a table. One of the rod becomes extremely hard. Another rod becomes very soft. The third rod can be bent double without destroying the steel structure. The fourth rod is extremely elastic. A diagram depicts physical properties of steel.

Date: 1924
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076898
Heat treatment of front axles of automobiles in the United States.

Heat treatment in automobile manufacture in the United States. Automobiles passing on a street. Exterior of an automobile industry. Men working outside the building. Interior of the building. Automobile parts under construction. The front axle of an automobile. Microscopic view of the axle before heat treatment. Cars moving across a field. Axles are treated in a huge automatic furnace. Interior of a building. Men working on the treatment of axles. Flame is kept away from metal while heating. Heat reaches the axles through numerous small openings. The temperature must be raised slowly and evenly to a specified degree and held there. A man turns a knob. Each furnace is equipped with electric temperature indicators called 'pyrometers'. The temperature is automatically recorded in the control office. Variations in temperature are recorded. Lines being drawn to indicate the variations in temperature. The straightness of the line indicates the uniformity of the temperature. Each furnace has a deviation indicator, showing slightest variation from the specified temperature. The furnaces are also equipped with signal lights. If the temperature gets too high, the red light glows and in case of too low temperature, the blue light glows. The white light indicates correct temperature.

Date: 1924
Duration: 6 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076899
A dramatization depicts men in mining community standing outside a billiards saloon and talking in the United States.

A film titled: 'When a man's a miner' dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. View of the coal fields called Tippleville. Houses along the sides of a street. A banner on a building reads: 'Troy's Pocket Billiards'. Men standing outside the building and talking. One of the man is Spike Sherman, who is a motorman in a mine. Dick Kincaid and his sister Mary Kincaid arrive near the building. Men talking about the girl. A man asks Spike why he was jealous of Lucky Burns if he was not crazy about the girl. The men argue and fight.

Date: 1924
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076901