# CONQUEST: GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY BIRTH OF THE MOVIES ALBERT EINSTEIN 48154

This black and white mid-1950s television show was part of the "Conquest" series, which in season two looked at "Great Achievements of the 20th Century.” A montage of achievements are shown. Early 1900s women punch a time clock dressed in long blouses, skirts, and updos, followed by dancing ( 1:38 - 2:04 ). A crowd gathers outside a Nickelodeon. A one-cent post advertises Billy West in The Absent Minded Janitor and Ham and Bud in The Sausage Factory. A hand inserts a penny into the slot of a flicker machine. 1903, the Edison Company produced The Great Train Robbery, a silent motion picture ( 2:06 - 3:45 ). A man jumps on a tightrope, followed by a woman with a parasol ( 3:46 - 4:00 ). The 1910s featured Vaudeville singer Lillian Russel, Flora Finch, and John Bunny ( 4:02 - 4:23 ). Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders ride into town ( 4:25 - 4:32 ). 1955, a woman dials a rotary telephone connected to two Bell Labs video screens to demonstrate the first videophone ( 4:42 - 4:54 ). 1901, Marconi sends the first radio transmission across the Atlantic. Western Union workers type messages, Shown are radio towers, electrical transformers, a room of large generators, and power lines ( 4:55 - 6:10 ). 1903, Madame Currie investigates radiation therapy. A patient has radium applied to a spot on her leg by a doctor and nurse ( 6:12 - 7:04 ). Albert Einstein is shown in 1921 at Princeton ( 7:05 - 7:39 ). Fish, sheep, and mine are fed radioactive materials ( 7:40 - 7:59 ). 1942,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/48154ConquerGreatAchievementsOfThe20thCentury)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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