https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/136810fe-3e43-4d2e-9340-875d913cf122 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 hybrid vehicles are produced at Aerocar International’s factory in Longview, WA. Moulton Taylor, founder of the company, converts an Aerocar from car to plane on a grassy airstrip (09:05). Taylor starts up the propeller and takes off in the Aerocar (10:01). In the final segment, viewers see music students enter the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA (11:12). Conservatory President Harrison Keller talks to students. Young children create their own instruments at home, including a triangle, drum, and tambourine. The children perform a song using their homemade instruments (12:50). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBDqrOx0wA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:33 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/136810fe-3e43-4d2e-9340-875d913cf122 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.