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13168_10671_machine_tool_production

1950s
B&W

Wisconsin: Production of tools that make up other machines. Numerical Control and Program Calculations. Shots of: woman in calculation room given numbers to calculate on an old calculator which is connected to a large computer. She sits and types while a typewriter and large computer calculates her numbers using large spinning wheels and film/tape. A man in a white lab coat turns dials on a large super computer. Lab coat guy uses a tube and points it at a drill that’s carving out spirals in metal.