Word: spools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building between the studios of Famous Players and R-K-0 in Hollywood a man was running a spool of film through a polishing machine. Something went wrong with the machine. A spark flew from a whirling gear and set the film on fire. A few seconds later every film in the room was on fire. Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like...
Every Saturday for the past ten-years I've climbed that tower too wind the machinery and I can tell you it's no easy job. There's a weight of about pounds which is at the end of a cable wound round a spool. When we wind the clock it means that the weight has to be lifted 100 feet. The bells are rung by a weight of 1500 pounds which has to be lifted the same height. As a rule it takes me nearly an hour to finish...
...single spool of master film, 3 in. wide, 2 in. in diameter, contained the equivalent of 2,700 fonts of type. Spacing, column-width, style of type are determined with equal facility and speed. Telegraphy and wireless telegraphy can be utilized to operate several of the machines in various towns simultaneously. The importance, as prophesied by "two men in a back street," the inventors: to printing, especially that of newspapers, by saving millions in capital outlay for type fonts, many valuable minutes getting to press...