Tools for cutting: stone axes to lasers

United States, 1974

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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.

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Credits

production company

Coronet Instructional Films

Duration

00:13:04:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1974

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

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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