MAKING IT TOUGH Part 1

Description

On steel alloy manufacture. Reel 1 shows a blast furnace, an iron mine, limestone being loaded on railway cars, and a coke furnace. Pig iron is made in a blast furnace and steel alloys in an open hearth furnace. Reel 2, ingots are molded, cooled, rolled, turned, cut, smoothed by pneumatic tools, and loaded onto railway cars. Scrap is melted in an electric furnace. Reel 3, impurities are removed and molten steel ladled. Stainless steel is rolled, cleaned and polished. A small furnace makes experimental alloys and steel is tested. Shows an auto assembly line, traffic, a Greyhound Bus, a motor boat, airplanes, oil derricks, storage tanks, and a railway locomotive. Diagrams use of steel in a home.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Bureau of Mines

Series

Public Information Films and Video Recordings