lead

1950s

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New York: shots of molten drums leaving a furnace. Showing how lead…

1950s

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“Versatile Plastic!” Plastics industry. Lead being dipped and formed…

1950s

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Washington: Men in wacky circle glasses working in a glass factory.…

1950s

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Re-enactment of Pierre and Marie Curie at work in their laboratory.…

1950s

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A teacher speaks to his class about the atom. There is a large diagram…

1950s

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A teacher using a Geiger counter in class places a sheet of Cobalt 60…

1950s

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Here's a 1950s clip of a plastics factory in Long Island City, New York…

1950s

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Here's a 1950s clip -- part 2 of 2 -- of a plastics factory in Long…

1960s

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A man in a tie and glasses places a flexible rubber tube into a small…