Cutting tools, like other devices and machines, reflect industrial development. The story of tools that cut, traces technological changes in a society beginning with stone axes and proceeding to devices that cut by the use of steel, diamonds water jet, electrochemical erosion, plasma jet and laser beam.
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322958
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrialization
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Metals
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Power tools
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Tools
Crafts & Visual Arts → Tools
Documentary
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Educational & Instructional
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
History → Technology and civilization
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Tools
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Lasers
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Machine-tools
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Metals
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Power tools
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technological innovations
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technology and civilization
Short films
Short films → Short films - United States
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)