THE THIRD WORLD POWER CONFERENCE Part 1

Description

On U.S. electric power resources. Reel 1 shows the Battery, Rockefeller Center, and Grand Central Station in New York City; electric arc experiments at a Pittsfield, Mass., laboratory; T.A. Edison and C.P. Steinmetz at a desk; Niagara Falls and a turbine generator room; activities at a steam plant in Buffalo, N.Y.; and light bulbs being made by hand. Reel 2, light bulbs are mass produced. A massive generator is assembled in Pittsburgh. Shows the dam and hydroelectric plant at Conowingo, Md.; TVA construction on Norris, Wheeler, and Wilson Dams; and the Capitol, White House, Library of Congress, and Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Records of International Conferences, Commissions, and Expositions

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to Fairs and Expositions