roger wiegand
02-10-2020, 2:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVG0-sbx3wA&t=31s
This is an amazing and wonderful film from 1918 about going from a tree to a flying biplane. It is long, but worth every minute. Have your mute button handy, as the "music" is probably not to many people's taste.
There was much to be impressed with here-- first and foremost was the literally thousands of people it took in the factories to build these planes. Almost every step was carried out by hand. Great examples of steam bending, some seriously scary machining, a few early pantograph-type replicators, etc. The lack of any sort of safety equipment, be it glasses, gloves, or respirators was sobering (at least the welders wore gloves). There were a (to me) surprising number of women doing both the"expected" tasks like handling the fabric for the wings, but also working side-by-side with the men doing carpentry and machining. -- I didn't think that happened until WWII.
This is an amazing and wonderful film from 1918 about going from a tree to a flying biplane. It is long, but worth every minute. Have your mute button handy, as the "music" is probably not to many people's taste.
There was much to be impressed with here-- first and foremost was the literally thousands of people it took in the factories to build these planes. Almost every step was carried out by hand. Great examples of steam bending, some seriously scary machining, a few early pantograph-type replicators, etc. The lack of any sort of safety equipment, be it glasses, gloves, or respirators was sobering (at least the welders wore gloves). There were a (to me) surprising number of women doing both the"expected" tasks like handling the fabric for the wings, but also working side-by-side with the men doing carpentry and machining. -- I didn't think that happened until WWII.