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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
A dramatization depicts Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid talking about joining safety classes in the United States.

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Men coming out of the mine after a day's work. Men walk past a board which reads: 'Safety Bulletins'. They look at the board. The notice is about instructions which are to be given next Monday about first aid and mine rescue work by the U.S. Bureau of Mines rescue car. Two men, Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid, talk about the notice. Dick asks Lucky to sign up for the thing. Lucky denies. Dick joins the class. Exterior of the mine. Men walking nearby.

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076902
A dramatization depicts Lucky Burns and Mary Kincaid talking in her house in the United States .

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Interior of a house. Mary Kincaid in the house. Lucky Burns arrives and talks to her. He proposes to her. Mary rejects the proposal. Lucky says that Mary's brother Dick Kincaid is earning enough money to take care of himself and her mother. So she should not refuse his proposal for any reason. She replies that she could never be happy with a man who is always taking chances. She says this as Lucky has denied to take safety lessons in the mine and has also said that the most of the course is taught by fellows who never worked in a mine. Dick arrives and asks them to have food. Mary further says that her mother has suffered a lot as her father was like Lucky and always took chances. She recalls the incidence. Her father was working in the mine with other miner. The miner warned her father of a loose piece of rock over him. Her father replied that the rock wouldn't fall and he would take it down when the car is loaded. The rock suddenly falls over her father. She says that her father was killed and then her mother had to suffer a lot afterwards.

Date: 1924
Duration: 5 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076903
A dramatization depicts Lucky Burns getting injured while working in a mine and then learning safety precautions in the U.S.

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid working in the mine. They talk about the work. Dick asks Burns whether he wants or not to drill a 'snubber' there. He refuses and says that they will give more powder to the top shots. They enter the mine the next day to start the work with their tools and equipment. They look at the area they were working on. Their shots were standing up. Dick says that they will have to work and dig the shots down. They load loose coal in cars. Burns suddenly falls and gets hurt by a mass of coal. A miner tries to help him and get him out of the coal pile. He applies a tourniquet to stop bleeding. Exterior of a house. Injured Burns seated outside the house. He reads a booklet about first aid. Dick standing nearby. He tells more about the instructions given to them during a safety course. Dick says that he can get copies of any of the booklets from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. They talk about a topic in the booklet that shows how barricades saved lives during mine disasters. Burns realizes that he was wrong in not attending the safety course. Mary Kincaid arrives and talks to Burns. He talks about information given in the booklet. The information is given about the fact that half of deaths in mines are caused by falling of roofs and coal over workers. Exterior of a house. A woman comes out of the house and meets a man.

Date: 1924
Duration: 12 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076904