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A dramatization depicts miners entering a coal mine to start their work in the United States.

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Miners standing at the entrance of the mine. A board on a building reads: 'Life Check House'. Men standing nearby with their lunch pails. They walk inside the building. The miners seated in cars enter the mine.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076905
A dramatization depicts Lucky Burns instructing miners for their safety after an explosion occurs in a mine in the U.S.

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Miners working inside the mine. They load coal in cars. An explosion occurs. The miners run holding their lunch pails. Houses along the sides of a street. Two women standing outside a house. The miners in the mine trying to get out. Lucky Burns, a miner, warns the other miners that they should not try to go out as the entry is full of afterdamp. He says that the air is good at the place where they are standing and thus they should remain at that place only. He instructs the miners to open a door so as to short-circuit the afterdamp, when the air current starts through the mine. Th miners work as per the instructions to save their lives.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076906
Miners gather material and construct a wall to get out of a mine after an explosion in it in the U.S.

A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Houses along the sides of a street. People walking on a street. Women standing near the entrance to a mine. After sometime, ten men wearing masks arrive. Miners working in the mine. 'Don't shut this door' written on a door. Men working and gathering material to construct a wall. A pipe is built into the wall so that they could test the air outside. Men working after the wall has been constructed.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076907
The technological advancement of the country by using various resources in the United States.

A film titled: 'The Story of Dynamite' on the advancement of the United States by using raw materials. A man and a woman pouring water in a container from a ditch in a field. Water wheels used to furnish power. Prairie schooners moving across the field. Steamships underway at sea. Trains on a railroad track. Buildings along the sides of streets in a city. Traffic on a street. The country advances by extracting great quantities of raw materials from the earth.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076914
Manufacture of dynamite and its principle ingredient nitroglycerin in the United States.

A film on manufacture of dynamite in the United States. Nitrate of soda is brought from South America and is used in crystalline form as an ingredient of dynamite. Men working for the manufacture of dynamite. A ship at a port. Men unloading sacks from the ship. Wood pulp is also used as a raw material in the manufacture of dynamite. The other material used is the nitrate of ammonia. Nitrate of soda is converted into nitric acid. It is dumped into huge retorts and is treated with sulphuric acid. Nitric acid vapors are condensed to a liquid in tiers of water-cooled glass pipes. Nitric acid is used to make nitroglycerin which is one of the most powerful explosives. Exterior of a building. Mixed nitric and sulphuric acid is run into a nitrator and refined glycerin is slowly added. The operator watches the thermometer as the chemical reaction releases an enormous amount of heat. An explosion can occur if the heat is not carefully controlled. He also watches the charge through a sight glass. Nitroglycerin and waste acids flow from the nitrator into a lead-lined trough which leads to a separator. The nitroglycerin rises to the top as the mixture settles. Then it is washed and led into storage tanks. It is transported to a dynamite mixing house in a rubber-lined and rubber-tired cart. Men working inside the building. A proper amount of the dry ingredients is poured into a mixing machine. Nitroglycerin is added to it. The mixture is further processed under revolving rubber-shod wheels.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 6 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076915
Manufacture of shells and packing of dynamite in a factory in the United States.

A film on manufacture of dynamite in the United States. Manufacture of shells which contain dynamite. The shells are made by a machine which cuts paper from a roll, prints it, rolls it into a cylinder and folds one end. Men working in a building. They work on several machines and equipment. The shells pass through an oven where they are sprayed with paraffin. Dynamite is fed into the back of a cartridge-packing machine on an endless belt. Men working inside the factory. Shells are fed into a shuttle. Packed cartridges are delivered.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076916
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