# Water Power / Safety First / Making Wicker Furniture / Tropical Gems of Florida / Kenneth Hughes, Boy Wonder: Dramatic Monologues / Tire Testing

Water Power / Safety First / Making Wicker Furniture / Tropical Gems of Florida / Kenneth Hughes, Boy Wonder: Dramatic Monologues / Tire Testing Produced: 1919 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Great Falls of the Potomac River, river banks, low river dam - high tension wires and power sub-station in a wooded area - river and wooded banks - river deposits - stone wall and building beside river. \[1919\] b. “Many accidents are caused by careless loading of trucks.” Boxes fall onto passerby from carelessly loaded hand truck - worker carefully lines up boxes on hand truck - worker rolls up sleeves of shirt before operating machinery in factory. “Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it’s dangerous in the eyes. Use goggles and be safe.” Worker without goggles covers face with his hand, runs away from furnace. Worker attaches guard over large turning wheel on machinery - large reinforced box in plant yard - (‘Note: explosion improves as experiment progresses’ written on film) - cover on box rises higher with successive detonations. “Top bolted down. No holes in top. One inch tie rod around bottom.” “Note roof is wrecked. Tie rod is bent. Doors are warped. Oven raised off the ground about 8 inches. Had the oven been exploded without tie rods, explosion would have been fatal to anyone standing near.” “The largest direct current electrical control board in the world. Various safety devices are employed here, among…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1919
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-60)
- 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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