Asbestos, The Story Of - 1921 REEL 1 (11:26 min) Panorama of asbestos mine at Chrysotile, Arizona. Materials for the mine must be delivered by truck. Burros coming up mountain side, burros leaving asbestos mine tunnel after receiving load. Burros carry bags of asbestos fiber to storehouse. Images showing the texture and length of asbestos fiber as it is taken from the mine. Scenes of the town and asbestos mine at Asbestos, Quebec, Canada in 1921.
Drilling shot holes with air compressor drills at open pit asbestos mine, placing dynamite, dynamite blast. Scenes of workmen in Cobbing Room at asbestos mine where fire is removed from the rock by hand for the purpose of assorting various grades. Loading asbestos ore with steam shovel after blast, steam-powered excavating machine used late 1800s and early 1900s. Steam powered train engine pulling ore cars. Rock crusher in operation, asbestos ore being processed. Asbestos products being made at Manville, New Jersey and Waukegan Ill, Shows Johns Manville plant. Exterior view and interior lobby view of Johns Manville "Asbestos Hotel" in the 1920's. Workers eating in cafeteria. Scenes of the Johns-Manville manufacturing factory (plant) at Waukegan, Illinois in the 1920s, factory power house generating room, power plant boiler room, view of engine room in the Waukegan factory, large electrical switch board. Machinery used in processing and manufacturing of asbestos yarn and sheets.
Asbestos, The Story Of - 1921 REEL 2 (11:08 min) Johns-Manville asbestos manufacturing factory. Machinery called spinning mules put twist into asbestos yarn, twisting strands of asbestos yard together, twisting asbestos yard and brass wire together for weaving brake linings for automobiles. Weaving asbestos into cloth. Making asbestos tubing used for packing. Making asbestos rope. Using rubber and asbestos to make packing for flanges, pipe joints, seal rings, and gaskets. Shows how magnesia is used with asbestos to make Magnesia blocks for boiler insulation. Testing laboratory. Making asbestos pipe insulation. Rolls of felt being saturated with asphalt to make roofing material.
Asbestos, The Story Of - 1921 REEL 3 (9:19 min) Johns-Manville Roofing is tested and applied, asbestos shingles are manufactured. Asbestos roofing withstands the blow torch test. Re-roofing building using asbestos felt paper and hot asphalt cement. Process of manufacturing asbestos shingles. Re-roofing house using asbestos shingles over old wood shingles. Manufacturing Transite asbestos wood, corrugated asbestos roofing and siding. Erecting transite asbestos wood smoke jacks. Manufacturing process for electrbestos.
