If you want to read a first hand account of what it was like on Black Monday in 1977 as well as what it was like in 1987, ( the very last day of operation at Sheet and Tube,) please get a copy of my book, “Steeltown Down,” available at Amazon Books. I worked for 43 years at both Youngstown Sheet and Tube as well as R G Steel, ( formerly WCI Steel,) and was one of the last three men at Sheet and Tube on its’ very last day and the very last employee at R G Steel on its’ last day. I write about those tragic last days as well as the machinery, their processes, the people, accidents and unfortunately, deaths I either witnessed or knew of, what it was like to go thru a 54 day semi violent strike at WCI, as well as many other experiences. If you do decide to get a copy I think you’ll get a much better understanding of how hard working and dedicated the men and women who worked there were and what a tragedy their mill closures really were.
It always fascinates me to watch cars being built from raw iron ore and seeing the finished car. I've loved automobiles ever since I was 2 years old. It was great seeing the beautiful Thunderbird, Lincoln, Mustang, and Cougar of 1968-1969 being finished and built. I sure wish they would have filmed this in color! I am sure everyone watching noticed that none of the workers wore any type of breathing protection or ear protection. If some of the younger ones are still alive today, they probably are deaf or got cancer from the carcinogens in the paint and breathing the lethal fumes of molten metal. I doubt any of them enjoyed a long retirement, sadly. I will never forget my school field trip visit in 1972 to the Arlington, Texas GM assembly plant. I was 11 years old. My best friend and I begged to lag behind the group so we could watch every process from arriving engines at one end, to hearing the cars fire up to life and being driven to the transport lot. I have never forgotten that trip. Beautiful Cutlasses, Monte Carlos, Skylarks, and Grand Prix.
And here I am now, 67 years later, watching this to see how a Slide Rule I got in Goodwill today works (Dad showed me many years ago, but I only briefly messed with that one). this one's an old Faber Castil 57/87, and was the later one made in 1972. One of the last of the slide rules to be made before pocket scientific calculators began to replace them. Nautical computers (like slide rules, but round) are still super popular though.
I worked for Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company at a float and automotive plant in Lathrop and in Ohio. Fascinating stuff was going on in the automotive industry during the mid 90s..but a lot of shutdowns too. I was glad to see this manufacturing face on. 😀
I'm only getting recc'd this video because I watched a vastly better video first. "Columbus Knew the Earth Was Round (and so did everyone else)" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F_Tbw5q219w.html
Back then manufacturing knew the hazards of 8 hours of exposure to sprayed solvents, loud percussive noises, metal particles from grinders, welders, etc. But it was a different era, and men were seen as expendable.
TO BAD THE MAN WHO HAD THE REP. FOR BEING A GREAT ENGINEER AND HUMANITARIAN, WASN'T VERY EFFECTIVE OR HELPFUL WHEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION HIT. AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAPPENED DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE. FDR DID WHAT HOOVER WAS AFRAID TO DO. AND THAT WAS GIVE AMERICA BACK TO ITS PEOPLE. AND FDR WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS. THE MAN WHO SAVED THE USA AND THE WORLD.
I owned a ‘60 Chevy for many years back in the day….283… three speed manual. Loved that car, but I have to say the ‘60 Buick is more beautiful. I wonder if my Honda with the four cyl K24 engine could do it…….
It is a testament to this fellow that of all the RU-vid videos I’ve watched on slide rule operation, this is the one that made it all click. Thanks to you who ever you are and wherever you are now.
I ran movies in high school AV club in the early 70s from our auditorium projection booth with an RCA Port-o-Arc 16mm projector. It was hand threaded and used a carbon arc lamp. It had a vacuum tube photocell like the one in this film and a tube amplifier. It put on a brilliant show. I loved this film, have watched it numerous times and am most excited to learn about the photoelectric effect that made it work! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this relic. Amazing seeing the science and understanding that was available even back then. And yet today there are deniers of these processes.
28 years in the patch. Trew chain on a triple motor man supervised building lease in Castaic ca. Became pumper on that lease for about 16 years. I am now 70. Started in 1976 on rig.grew up in Piru CA. Raised daughters in Fillmoe. No in Grass Valley Ca 15:01 15:09
The schoolchildren of 1966: "I hope to live to see the wonderus future of the 21st Century". The now senior citizens who watched this film in 1966: "I wished it was 1966 again".
UNION drivers back then . A great well paying career . Not any more nowadays after Jimmy Carter's deregulation and eventually Union busting crap ruined trucking as a career . 😢
I started using a Post slide rule in 1962, and after you have dropped it the accuracy has decreased from three significant digits to something less than three. So it is necessary to periodically recalibrate it to get the most accurate results. Only a few of today's students know the difference between precision and accuracy. My colleague taught engineering college classes. On one exam an engineering student wrote down 16 digits of an incorrect answer from his pocket calculator, and my colleague wrote in red, "Precise, but not Accurate." Multiplying and dividing numbers on a slide rule is based on adding and subtracting logarithms of these numbers. When two numbers with normal error distributions are multiplied together, their product no longer has a normal error distribution, but a log-normal error distribution, which is why the effective uncertainty can increase. Students are taught (or should be taught) early on that accuracy is only as good as the measurements, so never use more digits to represent computational results than the measurements provide, except in special cases where processing multiple measurements may allow some increase in accuracy.
