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- SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.
- Otto Moore's experiments in solar heating and cooling; modern sleep aids and boudoir gadgets; Japanese typography; double-tubed tires; pet carriers and garments; scientific conjuring tricks with liquid air.
- Marvels of technology: a mobile police command post; gymnasium with retractable floor; U.S. military landing barges and PT boats.
- Behind the scenes at Fleischer Studios, Miami, the making of a Popeye cartoon. Also, the School for the Aged in Elgin, Illinois; an electric scroll work saw; the RAF's 'Queen Bee' radio-controlled target plane.
- Collecting & processing natural sponges in Florida. Also: commercial air route over the Andes; prefabricated concrete houses.
- This series entry starts with the narrator saying 'No more lost airplanes.' He then explains how the first practical airplane flight recorder sends signals back to a control center, where the plane's position is plotted by lights on a large board. Other reports include the production of dry ice from gas reserves near the Salton Sea, an early telephone answering machine, pearls produced by abalone at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the structure of various crystals under the microscope.
- Scientist W. B. Herms works with black widow spider venom. Also, the modern trailer; invention of canned beer; a thermal-powered clock; the San Francisco Bay Bridge; accurate artificial flowers; a test pilot.
- Marvels of modern science: a pretty model demonstrates boudoir gadgets; work of research ship Aquina, with marine life shots.
- This episode includes a look at new uses for cotton, the modern kitchen, an all female medical college, frozen food, UCLA's mechanical brain (the differential analyzer mechanical computer), and the Northrup flying wing.
- This series entry starts on a beach. A large vehicle that looks like a road grader is actually more like a Zamboni machine for sand. As it moves along the beach, it digs into the sand and removes all manner of dangerous items, such as broken glass, pieces of metal and wood, and discarded food containers. We then visit a government laboratory to see how corundum and magnesium powder are processed into man-made gems. In Weedpatch, California, an old transport plane is used as a classroom to teach aviation science, and aircraft operation and maintenance. Finally, we see how certain types of seaweed are processed to make agar, a substance used in making dressing for wounds, cosmetics, and laboratory cultures for growing bacteria.
- 'World's largest camera' makes map printing plates for the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Also: household gadgets; ant farms; making and testing light bulbs; 'nose job' plastic surgery.
- At Arcata, California, testing technology for landing planes in fog. Also: a high-tech barber shop in Westwood Village, California; manufacture of precision steel gauge blocks in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
- The first story shows how American ingenuity dealt with the lack of nylon stockings during World War II (virtually all nylon was used for the war effort). By using a special bar of soap, a woman could have a tan on her legs that looked just like nylon hosiery. In the next story, women economize by wearing reversible garments. In Beverly Hills, California, inventor Glen Cook demonstrates the "pumpola". By pressing the device's foot pedals, a person can play chords on the piano, leaving the hands free to play a second instrument (in Mr. Cook's case, a violin). Lastly, we visit the headquarters of the Troop Carrier Command in Grenada, Mississippi.
- The opening of Mt. Palomar observatory, featuring testing of the 200 inch mirror. Also, the Davis 3-Wheeler and other experimental cars.
- Breeding "fly" (actually wasp) parasites of the European Pine Sawfly, a forest pest. Also, central traffic control for railroads; bedroom gadgets; training "grasshopper" pilots who scout for ground troops.
- Rocket research with German V-2's at White Sands, New Mexico (with flight camera footage). Also: bathroom gadgets; a one-man hay baler.
- This episode features Karakul sheep raising in California and fur-like products from their wool. Also: kitchen gadgets.
- Arthur Hammestein, a retired theatrical producer, at the age of 75, has a hobby of practical science, and has invented a non-clogging salt dispenser. In Chile, coal is mined from under the seas, and modern science is utilized to mine the coal. Then, science is used make make liquid motor-fuel from a corncob. And back in the USA, at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, the military fire-fighters utilize chemistry, engineering and human ingenuity to ensure greater safety for those who fly.
- At March Field, the U. S. Army Air Corps tests hardware including the Link Trainer. A plastic surgeon injects permanent "make-up"; humorous hat patents; finger paint; bandleader Fred Waring invents his Blender.
- The U. S. Infantry train with modern portable military hardware. Also, a comely model demonstrates a high-tech, all-glass bathroom.
- The first story in this series entry shows the Railroad Detector Car at work. Specialized electronic equipment detects defects in the rails that indicate excessive wear or stress, which could lead to accidents. A separate crew removes and inspects the suspect rail and, if necessary, installs a new one. The second story features an x-ray field unit for mobile military hospitals in combat zones.