1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1926)

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INDUSTRY AND ENGINEERING "1000 and One" INDUSTRY AND ENGINEERING GROUP 62 ELECTRICITY Cables Land Cable Service (2) The title tells it. (XXX) Linking the Three Americas (1) How ocean cables connect the continents. (XXX) Marine Cable Laying (2) Self-explanatory. (XXX) Repairing a Sub-sea Cable (%) Raising of a trans-Atlantic cable for examination and repair. (22) Speeding Up Our Deep Sea Cables (2) Camera record of laying of Permalloy cable between New York and the Azores — the world's fastest ocean telegraph. (154) (See also Group 66) GROUP 63 Radio The Audion (2) Action of vacuum tubes which have revolutionized the art of communication. (154) The Radio Telephone (2) How it operates. (XXX) The Re-Awakening of Rip Van Winkle (2) Wherein the "Slumbering Dutchman" awakens and is initiated into mysteries of modern broadcasting station. (XXX) Safety at Sea (2) Comprehensive story of marine radio; an indispensable institution protecting life and property on the high seas. (XXX) Trans-Oceanic Radio (2) Pictorial digest of world's largest and most remarkable trans-oceanic radio communication system. (XXX) Wireless Telephony (^) How sound waves are carried by electric waves, transmitted through space and reconverted into sound waves thousands of miles from their source. (22) ***The Wizardry of Wireless (2) Brief history of communication; animated drawings explaining from a technical standpoint the principles involved in wireless. — (X) ( See also Group 81 ) GROUP 64 Telephone and Telegraph Behind the Scenes (1) In a telephone office. (XXX) Concerning Crossarms (1) Fir trees and their use in electrical pole and conduit equipment. (XXX, 154) The Electrical Transmission of Speech (1) Presentation in animated drawing of fundamentals involved in transmission and reception of voice over wire circuits. (154) Getting Out the Goods (1) How the production of a great telephone manufactory is distributed. (154) How the Telephone Talks (%) Principles of communication by telephone. Details of transmitter and receiver. (22) ***Making Telephone History (1) The story of the evolution of the telephone. (XXX) Putting a Telephone Together (1) The title tells it. (154) Something About Switchboards (1) Unusual processes of fabricating and installing equipment which gives a telephone exchange its important position in modern business. (154) Speeding the Spoken Word (1) Operation of telephone system, from erection of poles to intricacies of central exchanges. (1S4) Spirit of Service (1) Telephone linemen and their unselfish service to mankind. (154) The Telephone — A Modern Marvel (2) Development and manufacture of telephone equipment. (154) A Telephone Call (1) Following the voice through various pieces of apparatus and electrical current carriers. (154) Telephone Inventors of Today (3) Inside one of America's best equipped and most expertly manned centers for scientific experiment and operation. (154) Voice Highways in the Making (1) Lead-covered cable which carries most of the world's telephone messages. What happens inside one of the big cable -sheathing presses. (XXX, 154) The World's Telephone Workshop (1) City in itself — devoted to task of creating the instruments of speech. (154) (See also Groups 63, 65-6, 72, 96, 114)