MAKING OF SAFETY GLASS, THE. [PART I] Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Scenes of automobiles, trucks, and buses moving on streets - view of River Rouge - steam shovel scooping silica sand into dump trucks and hopper cars - dynamiting silica sand - view of ramp into building, hopper car going up ramp, dumping load - machines washing sand - mixing - silica sand on conveyor - mixing with water - running through fine screen - sand drying in a rotary kiln - freight cars entering glass plant at Dearborn - man taking sample of sand with instrument - sand moving to storage bins - machines - display showing mixtures used in making glass: silica sand--45%; soda ash--14%; limestone--13%; cullet--33%; salt cake--3%; charcoal and sodium silicate--each 1/4 of .1% - mixing ingredients - machine pressing mixture into briquettes - briquettes moving into furnace - view through window into furnace - views of different instruments - worker at furnace - man sticking rod into furnace, taking test sample, blowing sample - taking temperature reading - glass moving through roller, moving through lehr - worker marking glass - cutting and trimming glass sheets - glass moving down conveyor line - sheet of glass in grinding and polishing machine - glass being lifted by suction crane, placed on plaster-of-Paris bed, pressed down - glass moving through grinding and polishing machine - polishing machine in operation - machine called ‘Iron Hand’ turning glass over - glass in grinding and polishing machinery - worker separating glass with air hose - glass being washed - suction crane lifting glass. [1937]
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