# INDUSTRY ON PARADE DUPONT HASKELL LAB SCOVILL SPRINKLERS AEROCAR FLYING CAR 9025

Industry On Parade was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the program’s decade-long run. 1954’s episode (no. 197) begins with “Recipe For Reassurance!” At the DuPont Company’s Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine (00:28) in Newark, DE, DuPont employees study health and safety issues surrounding their products. A man’s blood pressure and oxygen consumption are tested as he rides a stationary bicycle (00:55). A man stands on a platform that records his standing pressure. A woman pumps gas into a rat cage to expose the rat to the gas (01:44). A woman is the test subject for testing arctic clothing in various levels of humidity and cold temperatures (02:10). The next segment looks at the production of sprinklers at the Scovill Manufacturing Company’s Waterbury, CT plant. Metal rods are made in a 2,000-ton hydraulic press (03:40). The metal is taken up on reels and coiled while pliable. A man feeds the rods into a machine that cuts the metal and makes serrations on one end for water distribution (04:25). Women assemble gears in sprinkler heads (04:53). A woman and her two children test the same sprinkler head on a residential lawn (07:07). The next segment features the Aerocar, a flying car (07:33). An Aerocar pulls out of a residential driveway. The…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/B5YVfP8uvjKPpS8TLOQYVwQTFasvb6)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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