- Title: F-2700v
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS: PATRIOTIC FILM ABOUT THOMAS EDISON AND LIGHTBULBS. GENERAL ELECTRIC LOGO
- Description:00:07:29 - LOCOMOTIVE STEAM TRAIN. FREIGHT TRAIN. PROFILE OF ENGINEER. FURNACE FUELMAN FEEDING FIRE 00:07:54 - EXTREMELY LONG FREIGHT TRAIN PASSING OVER BRIDGE 00:08:19 - TITLE CARD: "NEW JERSEY CANOE CHAMPIONSHIP CANOE MEET, ASBURY PARK" 00:08:24 - MEN IN BATHING SUITS CIRCA 1920s IN CANOES ON LAKE 00:08:27 - MEN IN RACE, JUMP IN LAKE, SWIM TO CANOES. PADDLE AWAY RACING. LAKESIDE HOMES IN BKGD 00:09:05 - TITLE CARD" "FIRST INCANDESCENT LAMP". PATRIOTIC FILM ABOUT THOMAS EDISON & LIGHT BULBS 00:09:31 - LIGHT BULBS OF VARIOUS SIZES & SHAPES LIGHTING UP, FLASHING, GOING OUT 00:09:50 - EDISON BEING HONORED BY OFFICIALS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC. MEN TALKING INTO EDISON'S EAR. HARD-OF- HEARING 00:10:11 - EDISON & OTHERS TOURING GENERAL ELECTRIC LABORATORIES 00:10:23 - EDISON WATCHING CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS BEING CARRIED ON FOR PURIFYING MATERIALS 00:10:45 - EDISON WATCHING TUNGSTEN BEING HEATED & HAMMERED. MAKING OF LIGHT BULBS. ELECTRICAL PHOTOMETER 00:11:54 - EDISON LOOKING INTO PHOTOMETER 00:12:16 - ROOM FULL OF LIGHT BULBS LIT UP, TESTING LIFE OF LIGHT BULBS 00:12:39 - SINGLE LAMP LIT UP 00:12:47 - EDISON WATCHING WORKER WITH SEMI-AUTOMATIC MACHINERY 00:13:12 - FEMALE WORKERS IN PRODUCTION ROOM MAKING LIGHT BULBS 00:14:07 - EDISON AT RESEARCH LABORATORY IN SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK. GREETED BY W. R. WHITNEY, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH 00:14:34 - EDISON WRITING HIS NAME IN VISITORS BOOK 00:14:51 - DR. WHITNEY SHOWING EDISON METALIZED CARBON FILAMENT 00:15:11 - CU COOLIDGE X-RAY TUBE 00:15:24 - EDISON & DR. COOLIDGE WITH HIS INVENTION 00:15:46 - CU MAZDA LAMP, INCANDESCENT LAMP 00:16:10 - EDISON & DR. LANGMUIR, INVENTOR OF THE GAS-FILLED LAMP. HIGH POWERED VACUUM TUBE 00:16:54 - CU VACUUM TUBE USED IN RADIOS 00:17:05 - EDISON WITH FRIEND DR. CHARLES P. STEINMETZ, INVENTOR, TOURING STEINMETZ'S LABORATORY 00:17:45 - EXPERIMENT SHOWING WHAT A MILLION VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY WOULD DO TO A PIECE OF WOOD & PORCELAIN INSULATOR 00:18:11 - EDISON & STEINMETZ DISCUSSING ELECTRICITY 00:18:29 - EDISON & STEINMETZ GETTING INTO CAR, DRIVE OFF FROM LABORATORIES 00:18:46 - CU INCANDESCENT LAMP 00:18:56 - CU LAMPS CIRCA 1920s 00:19:15 - SCIENTISTS WORKING ON EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY 00:19:49 - MAN PACING BACK & FORTH THINKING. SITS AT PIANO, PLAYS WITH TWO FINGERS. 00:20:16 - CU SPOOL OF THREAD BEING UNROLLED 00:20:18 - GETS IDEA TO CARBONIZE THREAD 00:20:35 - SCIENTIST LOOKING AT THREAD UNDER MICROSCOPE 00:20:48 - BIRTH OF INCANDESCENT LAMP, SCENES OF SCIENTISTS WORKING ON LAMPS 00:21:46 - EDISON SLEEPING IN LAB ON TABLE. LEAVES LIGHT BULB, LAMP ON 00:22:02 - EDISON'S HELPERS ARRIVE IN MORNING TO FIND LAMP LIGHT STILL ON AFTER 8 HOURS. WAKE EDISON 00:22:37 - DRAWING OF CURRENT DISTRIBUTION, SERIES SYSTEM USED IN ARC LIGHTING. 500 VOLT GENERATOR. ANIMATION SHOWING HOW SYSTEM WORKS 00:24:03 - EDISON'S MULTIPLE SYSTEM, USED IN HOME LAMPS. 110 VOLTS 00:24:32 - ANIMATION USED TO ILLUSTRATE 110 VOLT SYSTEM 00:26:09 - EDISON CHECKING ROOM OF INCANDESCENT LAMPS. MULTIPLE SYSTEM. CHECKING LIGHT BULBS. BLOWS OUT LAMP 00:26:27 - EXTERIOR GENERAL ELECTRIC LABORATORIES 00:26:34 - GENERAL ELECTRIC BIG WIGS LOOKING OVER LIGHT BULBS, LOOKING THROUGH MICROSCOPE 00:26:50 - 1920s FAMILY AT HOME WITH ELECTRICITY. LITTLE GIRL TURNS ON LIGHT 00:26:59 - CU EDISON PHONOGRAPHIC RECORD 00:27:02 - LITTLE GIRL PLAYING RECORDING FOR FAMILY. PUTS RECORD ON PHONOGRAPH 00:27:13 - CARS DRIVING AT NIGHT WITH MAZDA LIGHTS 00:27:23 - NIGHT EXTERIOR WHITE HOUSE LIT UP 00:27:32 - NIGHT EXTERIOR FACTORY BUILDINGS 00:27:37 - MINERS GETTING READY TO GO IN MINES 00:27:51 - FAIRYLAND LIT UP WITH LIGHTS 00:28:00 - NEW YORK CITY AT NIGHT 00:28:10 - WHITE HOUSE AT NIGHT 00:28:18 - NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL PARK BY DAY & BY NIGHT 00:28:30 - LOW ANGLE STATUE OF LIBERTY AT NIGHT, TORCH LIT 00:28:37 - HUGE AMERICAN FLAG BLOWING IN WIND 00:28:45 - THOMAS EDISON AT LEISURE, READING BOOK SMOKING CIGAR OUTDOORS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: F-2700v