Retrofuturism: The Future We Dreamt Of | Sleepcore Stream

what you're about to see is an imaginative jeomsun to the Future the Hollywood view of the era 1960 will see some rather startling things some which made a commonplace by then here we go to the city of the future its 1960 remember and we're visiting the home of mr. and mrs. Ames who might be your neighbors or mine we're having steak broiled in buffett steak steak steak every night the same thing can't we ever have anything else Danny my boy you're lucky to get steak yeah I remember back in 1944 we thought we were lucky to get any kind of meat is that right mother okay I'll make a deal with you if you'll get me one of those new super P 1038 convertible rocket planes to fly to school I'll eat anything you say Danny you ought to be ashamed of yourself you've got a lovely plane now that all here a copter it's no fun now Danny I told you before we can't afford a rocket ship now if I hear any more out of you I'll ground you then you'll have to get along with an automobile okay okay I'll be good golly if I had to start going around in an automobile my girl would take one look and say shoo shoo baby shoo shoo baby where in the world did you hear that one of those old programs we get on the reverses skull yeah how'd it go shoo shoo yes i remembers you oh I love those old songs see if you can find that program again Danny okay mmm shoot shoot baby ah first gonna do the seven seas let's see no when was that popular I think it was back in 1944 wasn't women yes get 1944 Danny all right 1920 before there we are it's a little old-fashioned pop but you asked for it if you happen to see this trim little buggy zoom up and quickly swing into a tight parking spot you'll be looking at a remarkable new car the Davis 3 wheeler with four seated comfortably it takes off streamlined as a plane is this unique creation with designer Gary Davis at the wheel built in Southern California it logically incorporates several aircraft principles such as adaptation of the tricycle landing gear system the switch on the dashboard operates built-in hydraulic jacks and makes tire changing and exhilarating experience the single front wheel explains the cars parking dexterity and keeps it on an even keel in the event of a blowout even at a top speed of 115 miles an hour there are no fenders wraparound steel bumpers protect removable body panels this little chariot can really run you around in circles what's the trouble Gary Oh a modern Frankenstein and here's another streamlined marvel on wheels it only needs a pair of wings to be at home in the sky formidable indeed is it snow with riveted aluminum fuselage entry hatch and rugged M panache it's wasting time on the ground but being earthbound the monster is troubled out out of the highway to frighten other motorists if you're looking for a 1960 model this may well be is somewhat less spectacular is the sporty new creation of Gordon urug of Pennsylvania designer of the famous core front fenders of laminated fiberglass turn with the wheels made of like magnesium body and removable top part of aluminum is plastic in the cockpit or rather the driver's compartment mr. Buick operates the controls closely resembling those of a plane thus aircraft methods are becoming increasingly popular in automotive science [Music] you [Music] wow what a beauty by golly I think I'll buy a new car and say Mellie how long have I had the old one one here eight months 14 days of Evan minutes 43 seconds we across time to go home shorties well I'm ready you home day 11 - 3 2 hours from lunch three days a week it's a tough life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I've never eat anything fasting in my entire life give me license number WJ k Dec 4 1 2 I did to be high 3 no Trump hi dad do you mind if I pass sickly not good right here Thanks [Music] no doubt about it this bus is a little old fashioned well that was delicious [Music] that concludes tonight's thrilling episode of our three dimensional Western brought to you by energy the combination soft drink can be n desert with the three-dimensional flavor good good diet at your local market 51st century car [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello folks say that now we are going to bring you a special entertainment feature which will show the development of the automobile oh I wanna see another cowboy picture quiet I beg your pardon oh I'm not you say those new models look terrific they are terrific you should see what your grandfather used to call an automobile okay Sam start the show now folks believe it or not this is actually an automobile when grandpa was a 17 year old hot water around the turn of the century this job was the hottest thing on wheels grandpa's newfangled horseless carriage changed his whole life in more ways than one motoring was a thrilling experience even in those days since there weren't any doors in grandpa's green boat sometimes it was a little too thrilling every trip was an adventure in those days and one thing you could always depend on a flat tire the old retaining race on the rims didn't always retain what they were supposed to retain shock-absorbers hadn't been invented yet and road conditions were ideal for testing the fatigue and failure points of automobiles and drivers grandpa's car didn't have much acceleration for passing so he found himself on the wrong side of the road for longer than he should be caught out at night Grandpa's gas or oil headlamps worth much competition for a couple of fireflies the little speedster had no tongue and it was far from comfortable in an unexpected shower the windshield was a great improvement but without a wiper even Grandpa's 20/20 vision couldn't keep him out of trouble the runabout didn't have a self-starter and often the 10 horsepower engine didn't respond to the hand crank [Music] [Applause] occasionally even on good roads individual parts failed without warning axles snapped when drag links and steering knuckles failed it was hard to tell what might happen [Music] [Applause] with every passing year improvements came thick and fast stronger and safer wheels were developed with demountable rims for tires doors were added to keep people safely inside tops became standard equipment windshields protected motorists from bugs and the elements wipers were invented to help the motorist drive safely in bad weather the driver's seat was moved from right to left to make passing safer the electric starter replaced the old hand crank this remarkable invention enabled grandma to get into the automobile driving act and he really loved it as the years went by the automobile manufacturers continued to improve their cars and make them safer so that more and more people could use and enjoy them press steel wheels for greater strength stop lights to warn following drivers rearview mirrors four-wheel hydraulic brakes to increase stopping power bumpers to add more protection rubber covered pedals to keep feet from slipping safety glass increased passenger protection tremendously welded all steel bodies and all steel tops meant more strength and safety bumpy roads were smoothed out with shock absorbers and grandpa could sail along in comfort and safety through the years the automobile changed from a novelty to a necessity if we did a new way life provided a whole new concept of transportation for industry and we became a nation on the move work and pleasure besides designing better automobiles the manufacturers develop research and testing techniques to help them build safer cars the science of metallurgy met the challenge of creating more efficient and stronger parts and assemblies scientists used all kinds of technical equipment in research and development programs ingenious torture tests were designed to reveal fatigue and failure points in parts and assemblies and light the parts of assemblies the cars themselves were tested under all kinds of driving conditions to make sure that they would operate with maximum efficiency and safety at the end of the rugged test run on the proving grounds they were disassembled down to the last boat and checked and studied in the new detail here after year manufacturing processes steadily improved to make sure that every automobile that left the factory was in good working order each car was subjected to more than 2,000 inspections cars became safer and more reliable so when grandpa still fled his fry in spite of his age set out for a little trip his car was reliable safe comfortable and easy to drive safety door locks kept grandpa secure inside the old steel body the adjustable seat quickly placed him in a comfortable position the automatic transmission made driving easy and easier controls meant safer driving styling contributed to safety the low center of Glee gave more stability tubeless tires meant increased safety new equipment kept grandpa warm and winter and cool in the summer to add to his comfort and a more comfortable driver was a safer driver more powerful and reliable engines were developed to make driving more efficient haha when grandpa passed another car he did it safely and easily wraparound windshields and larger rear windows increased visibility tremendously sealed beam headlamps guided grandpa's safely at night power brakes made it possible for him to stop easily and quickly directional signals let the other fellow know the drivers intentions our steering not only made parking a breeze it made all driving easier even in the good old days of the 1950s and 1960s grandpa could rely on his automobile to get him to his destination quickly safely and fresh as a daisy so you see folks all of you who are living in the year 2000 are fortunate because through the years the automobile manufacturers have had as their goal your safety first they have constantly improved the quality and safety of automobiles and they will continue in the future as they have in the past to create cars that are more maneuverable more responsive more dependable in every situation and easier more pleasant and safer for all of us to drive including of course grandpa that's the dingdong truth oops look at me going on a hundred and seventeen exist easy modern living the desert Welsh along kids gotta go pick up another new bottle [Music] you're watching sleep core pleasant dreams [Music] my daughter when he said dad does he jettisons the movie it's cool now Wendy's has a fun way for your family to meet the Jetsons just order the jet pack a delicious quarter pound single and a large drink and we'll give you a free jet since the movie Cup I guess I'm just old-fashioned that George is my kind of guy come in for a jetpack and your free Jetsons the movie come only at Wendy's Prada bag shop here she's mopping up we got the water some of the dishes she tried a few months ago one of them is an awful messy looking site folks I wish you Cathy it's a 10-lane the entire operation the dishwasher would use a total 4015 force of order which is a lot less than mrs. Rogers use holy mrs. Rudge before it's too late that Porter's coming out very fast too late there's the last drop of water folks the contest over in exactly seven minutes and 58 seconds that time mrs. Martin has washed 50 dishes and 40 pieces of silver precise cuts all over mrs. George you may as well rest now heads I've said before ladies and gentlemen this contest is going to be scored on three counts first but time it takes to do the dishes unquestionably mrs. modern wins on that score second but cleanliness of the dishes they are clean they are dry and sparkling they should be 102 any woman's table so mrs. Martin was point number two her dishes are certainly cleaner and now point number three the condition of the contestants mrs. modern looks especially diz when she stepped in the ring by mrs. Drudge leave that to you and some ladies and gentlemen I give you the winner mrs. modern [Applause] beautiful kitchen needed me nothing it's a paradise this is the new electric dishwasher that's key button dad would sure go for it they're the official dish dryers Tom's gonna get me a dishwasher like that for my birthday's it's the last thing he ever does but mother your birthday was last month well I've just decided I'm going to have another electro come here and here he comes ladies and gentlemen walking up to greet you under his own power I've read them to you the electro the Westinghouse board oh man [Music] you see all I need to do is to speak into this phone and electro does exactly what I tell him to do sometimes but I don't see why I'm telling electro story when he's practically able to tell his own so let's listen and see what electro has to say to us today all right electro will you tell your story please Oh me - you okay - it ladies and gentlemen I'll be very glad to tell my story I am a smart fellow as I have a very fine brain that's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen boy what a guard that I'd make on my football team now I like throw a moment ago you were bragging about being able to count on your fingers do you remember that what we're going to find out about that now do you remember how many children were born at the same time to a certain family up in Canada you remember that all right let's see if you do count them on your right hand one two three four five five well that's absolutely correct how could he do all those things Jim he's full of mutters gears can photoelectric cells you could fill a book with all the electromechanical principles involved in the thing oh yes me I say a nothing but brain well they're all in back to the heart he's not the only one [Music] their father and mother and Hitler and brother oh everyone there [Music] everyone there you're sure to meet Tom Dick and Harry and maybe the one you eventually marry if you should be there you never [Music] [Applause] [Music] wait [Music] gosh I'm kind of thirsty how about you [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'll tidy up a bit Ronny tardy Hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the past is black-and-white the first decades of this century are black and white my own childhood is black and white I look again and again at pictures snapshots movies like these and my earliest memories seem to lose the color they contain and to become like these images I remember the year in which the world began to change the year when not all at once but scene-by-scene color began to replace the black-and-white world of my early childhood I first heard about the New York World's Fair a long time before it opened I heard about it in the newsreels you often saw strange things in the newsreels then one week it was this man Grover Whalen president of the New York World's Fair Corporation and what he was doing was preparing to bury that streamlined bomb sort of thing deep in the ground of Flushing Meadow where it was to lie unopened for 5,000 years the contents of the time capsule will give a much truer picture of American civilization than we have of the peoples of 5,000 years ago were unable to preserve for posterity the record of their Ames inventions and accomplishments it was the time capsule of the Westinghouse company and it was the first time capsule I had ever heard of they were putting in scientific texts and books reduced onto microfilm and messages from our time written by Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein there were radio programs and records and comics daily newspapers copies of life and a dozen other magazines there was a lily - a hat a telephone a pack of camels a baseball and a golf tee there were eye glasses a clock a kewpie doll a slide rule in a lightbulb a menu from child's a dollar and change well that would be a must-see item the time capsule in his immortal well watching it being buried you knew these people were serious about the future 5,000 years by thousand year sleep core will return after these messages [Music] [Applause] [Music] some of the most famous fashion designers in the u.s. today have been asked to forecast what Eve will look like in AD 2000 one idea is a dress that can be adapted for morning afternoon or evening it's the sleeves what does it according to another artist one dress of the future will consist of transparent knit the net probably to catch the Mail's apparently in 80 mm we should be having a hair-raising time yet another designer goes so far as to believe that skirts will disappear entirely shoes will have cantilever heels and an electric belt will adapt the body to climatic changes the lightly clad woman of tomorrow ooh switch will move in an atmosphere that scientifically kept at the right temperature the future bride in a wedding dress of glass what the groom will wear apart from a worried look isn't mentioned a dress of aluminium with a sash to change it for afternoon or evening an electric headlight to help her to find an honest man as for him if he matters at all there won't be any shaving collars ties or pockets he'll be fitted with a telephone a radio and containers for coins keys and candy for cuties even in the year 3000 the answer for being a package that saves energy nutrients and trouble [Music] [Music] the first big pavilion to go up was Russia's marble clad Tower dominated by a statue everyone would call Joe the worker selling Stalin on the fair was Whelan's first big coup it guaranteed that his fare would be designated the World's Fair for 1939 this is the New York World's Fair in 1939 everytime Whalen signed up a foreign nation or a big American corporation a model of its proposed pavilion would be placed within the gigantic model of the whole fairgrounds high up in the Empire State Building and those fairgrounds had begun to look like no place on earth [Music] [Music] as soon as plans for ro World's Fair had been announced the foremost industrial designers modernist architects and social planners in America had seized on it as their great chance they urged Whelan's Board of Governors to downplay the backwards look the patriotic anniversary that had been the usual excuse for a trade fair in the past in fact the board had already hit on just such an anniversary to celebrate 1939 would be the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of George Washington's inauguration in New York City so Whalen brought George to town he even drew a crowd out on the fairgrounds an immense statue of him by James Earle Fraser was erected and the whole fair would be nominally dedicated to him but in the end George and the past would be dwarfed by the future by the fair's symbol and center the trial on and Paris fear because that wasn't a pyramid or an obelisk or anything old-fashioned going about in Queens it was a trial on the official theme of the World's Fair was to be building the world of tomorrow and inside that immense globe only it wasn't a globe it was a Paris fear was constructed a scale model of a centrally planned city of tomorrow democracy T sort of place where all Americans would soon be living city planners and functionalist architects believed they knew what the future had to be like and what ordinary Americans had to learn to live successfully in it they intended to make a working model of tomorrow in Flushing Meadow and that convinced Grover Whalen to go out and sell their tomorrow to the world thank you very much congratulations and every good wish every good wish to use thank you as opening day grew close Whelan acquired as many public events for his fairs uses as he could when Howard Hughes made his record-breaking flight around the world Whelan got him to paint the trial on and Paris fair on the plane and deliver invitations to the fair in Japan and China Whelan got his fare into the newsreels and on the air as often as he could and he was always ready for a second take [Applause] a 155 billion dollar Wonderland as if by magic twelve hundred and sixteen acres of wasteland have been transformed into the most stupendous exposition the world has ever known hundreds of huge buildings thousands of exhibits comprise the greatest peacetime project ever undertaken the planners and builders have woven well the threads of the titanic tapestry into the eighth wonder of the world Franklin Roosevelt's opening day speech was covered by every newsreel but it was also for the first time broadcast by the medium of tomorrow come to this World's Fair in New York will receive the hottest of welcome they will find that the eyes of the United States are fixed on the future yes our wagon is still hitched to a star but it is a star of friendship a star of international goodwill and above all a spur of peace I hereby dedicate World's Fair the New York World's Fair of 1939 and I declare it open to all mankind it cost 75 cents to get in not cheap and a guidebook cost a quarter if you could spend five dollars you could get a guided tour including tickets to all the big shows and dinner you could spend days seeing everything and it could be you'd never want to go home again [Music] after feeding we're not in Kansas anymore [Music] what the designers had hoped to do was to structure your experience of the future from the moment you entered the gates from the various entrances converging avenues drew you to the theme center the only buildings at the fair allowed to be painted stark white stretching away from the theme center each Avenue was a different color pale pastel shading subtly to deeper hues in the distance a color-coded City bright rational completely plan coming down from the Paris fear on that ramp only it wasn't a ramp it was a hella climb the first zone you glimpse was the transportation zone over across the bridge of wheels there was the aviation building like a dirigible entering a hangar the double Prowse of the marine transportation building there Ford cars endlessly circled the road of tomorrow and they're inside the immense General Motors building the one with the longest lines was the one exhibit everyone knew about Futurama that was what I wanted to see first I loved that fair it was so clean dad said we'd come not just to have fun but to learn to get ready for the future so we bought a guidebook that explained it all and we chose the transportation zone to start learning in only on the way to one exhibit you are always being caught up by others Albright's oh that's a railroad arm parade in a super roundhouse largest exhibition building in the fairground hear the story of the Iron Horse portrayed in a historical pageant presented four times daily every show every exhibit pulled you into the future you were continually being shown improvements in progress 1789 1939 2039 always greater ease efficiency frictionless speed climax the arrival of the Train of today and tomorrow the streamliner genomic all aboard but the whole real future was in the Futurama I waited for hours on the Switchback lines at the General Motors building inching my way towards the future thinking about tomorrow actually tomorrow scared me a little could I grasp the immense plan expressed in occult symbols all over the fair would I be up to tomorrow it seems so urgent that tomorrow be dragged out of the future where it lay peacefully unborn but why was it so urgent why [Music] looking back now I can see why and if I had seen this film at the fair where it was first shown I might have understood a little then we hope for so much from the future because our present seemed so empty don't tell us that this is the best that you can do in building cities we built this place what put us here and how do we get out again we're asking just asking [Music] the Depression that began in 1929 had never really lifted here we were a mighty nation our industrial plant intact our people strong and willing and millions living on charity or on the streets everything's shabby worn-out stall thinking men and women the Institute of planners which made this film believe that the waste the frustration the killing poverty were worse than evil they were unnecessary they believed we could rebuild our fallen system so that it served people instead of consuming all it would take was informed Democratic assent to central planning and a willingness to shake off the past [Music] it's here a new city ready to serve a better age you and your children the choice is yours actually this was the new plan town of Greenbelt Maryland it looked like the future but what the planners insisted but the whole fair was always saying was that this is possible today [Music] at last you entered the General Motors Futurama through a narrow cleft in that high wall and you were put into a moving chair and a voice began to speak with calm certainty and before you opened a Wonderland 3,000 square miles in scale a plane ride over an America from which the past my present had vanished seemingly without a trace and now we see a great river city of 1960 here is an American city replanned around a highly developed modern traffic system on all Express city thoroughfares the rights-of-way have been so routed as to displace outmoded business sections and undesirable slum areas whenever possible [Music] a fast circular airport is close to the city with a giant dirigible hangar so that it can be turned easily to meet any wind direction it is resting in a pool of liquid [Music] here is a highway intersection highway engineering at its most spectacular by means of the ramped loops cars may make right and left turns at rates of speed up to 50 miles per hour safe distance between cars is maintained by automatic radio control curved sides assists the driver in keeping his car within the proper lane under all circumstances a quarter of a mile high skyscrapers Tower on many of the buildings are landing decks for helicopters and auto gyros we see some suggestion of the things to come a world with a future in which all of us are tremendously interested because that is where we are going to spend most of our lives it was democracy and Greenbelt all stitched together with the super highways General Motors was counting on and whether or not the Futurama was exactly what the social planners had in mind for America General Motors had no doubts when you left the building you were given a small blue and white button that said simply I have seen the future you're watching sleep core media for insomnia ladies and gentlemen you are about to witness the most excitingly different new concept in the history of television [Music] [Music] they call a predictor picture just watch in the air anyway good evening i'm nelson case well what do you think is there any wonder it's called the most advanced television of our time and the credit all belongs to Philco television scientists who have worked years to develop a radically new semi-flat picture tube which measures less from front to back than any you've ever seen they've created a new predictor chassis which puts more picture power in less space and for the first time in television history they've discovered a way to separate the tube from the chassis now all this makes possible a new approach to the design use and enjoyment of television receivers as we know them here's another example of that result the philco predicta pedestal a completely new console TV exciting and different it's truly TV today from the world of tomorrow but there's more there's so much more that you haven't seen or even dreamed up so be sure to stay tuned in for your first preview look at the most exciting television line in the world just a sample of what's in store for you right now at your Philco dealers where it's 1965 today [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Atomic Age was born there is no denying that since that moment the shadow of the atom bomb has been across all our lives all men of good will earnestly hope that a realistic control of atomic weapons can and will be achieved meanwhile good sense requires that all of us prepare for any eventuality but wisdom demands to that we take time to understand this force because here in fact is the answer to a dream as old as man himself a giant of limitless power at man's command and where was it science found that giant in the atom a particle so infinitely small that it takes over a hundred billion billion atoms to make up the head of a pin just as other millions and quadrillions of atoms are the tiny building blocks which make up everything in the world ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings although no one has ever seen an atom scientists have learned a great deal about how they behave and there are widely accepted theories as to what they're like let's start by meeting a leading authority on the subject dr. Adam now observing the professor himself we can see that his structure resembles in many ways something almost as vast as the atom is small the solar system and there are certain similarities this is the center with electrons in surrounding orbits but whereas the planets movement Tron's is slightly different there are other differences too hey hold it thank you now the solar system gather is electrical the electrons which are negative are attracted by the protons which are positive and vice versa but here in the nucleus are other particles with no electrical charge called neutrons very important characters - as we shall see and equally important when it comes to atomic energy is what scientists call the atoms binding force it's a kind of cosmic blue holding the nucleus together this then is a single atom but certainly not all atoms are alike there are in nature more than 90 basic elements which is science term for families of atoms - scientists the atoms of the individual atom families or elements are identified by number that is the number of protons or positive charges in their nucleus and they vary all the way from hydrogen which has just one proton to oxygen with eight protons to gold he's rich with 79 finally on to the heaviest of all natural elements uranium with 92 protons now within each element or family of atoms there can be different members each one having the same number of protons but differing in the number of neutrons the total of an atoms protons and neutrons is its atomic weight thus in natural uranium we have you 234 u-235 and u-238 these different members of the same element or atom family science calls isotopes some elements tin for instance have a great many isotopes others like aluminum are lone wolves with just one now most atoms of most elements are content with their lot in life we speak of them as being stable but others are busy day at night being what science calls radioactive like radium throwing off powerful rays along with some of its neutrons and protons until it actually alters its own nuclear structure and changes to another family and then to another until it does become stable at last this spontaneous changing of elements is called natural transmutation its discovery gave men of science an idea if an atom could change itself why couldn't man change an atom using his bullets the very particles which radium threw off a noted British scientist bombarded nitrogen and converted it to oxygen in terms of individual atoms this is what happened the radium nucleus threw off an alpha particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons one of the protons was absorbed into the nitrogen nucleus turning it to oxygen this was artificial transmutation man changing the elements from that first experiment others by the thousands followed as scientists devised ever more powerful particle accelerators commonly called atom smashers to transmute more and more kinds of atoms all scientifically important but hardly world-shaking then in 1939 some scientists were experimenting with transmutation of uranium what would happen they wondered if they fired a neutron at a uranium nucleus already the heaviest in nature why not try so they tried and the result nuclear fission instead of a minor change the atom split into truly a discovery to change the world for what had happened when the uranium atom split was a kind of double miracle of science half of the miracle concerned that binding force we spoke up before that kind of cosmic glue which holds the atom's nucleus together we still don't know all about that binding force yet but we do know it is equivalent to mass therefore we may speak of it as having a kind of weight of its own now the two atoms into which a uranium atom splits also have binding force but for some reason it takes less of that glue to hold them together and in the process of fission a tiny fraction is left over what happens to it it explodes as energy proving Einstein's theory that mass and energy are really the same but we spoke of a double miracle to understand the second one let's slow down that fission a million or so times a single particle starts the reaction splitting the uranium atom here now is the release of energy as heat and blast here are powerful rays being given off similar to x-rays but here here are free neutrons driven out with tremendous speed and provided there is sufficient u-235 present what science calls a critical mass those neutrons bombard other uranium atoms causing them to split and split still others the result a chain reaction over a million billion billion atoms exploding within two seconds and the force it would take Yankee Stadium full of dynamite to equal the energy released in the complete fission of an amount of u-235 the size of a baseball with this discovery at the time the free world faced a war for survival it was little wonder the first thought was a weapon but how to obtain enough material for even a single bomb only a small fraction of natural uranium is the u-235 isotope which will fish in in a chain reaction and to separate enough u-235 quickly enough seemed all but impossible but the impossible became reality as industry labor science and the military combined their efforts to build Oak Ridge where enough u-235 was separated to build the first atomic bomb at Hanford Washington another impossible project proved possible when a huge plant was built for the mass production of the artificial element plutonium this process involves what may be called the furnace of atomic energy the reactor pile here is a structure or pile of graphite blocks in the reactor are placed rods of natural uranium containing both u-235 and u-238 as u-235 begins to fission the graphite slows down the free neutrons and some of them hit other u-235 atoms keeping the chain reaction going but others of those slow down neutrons hit u-238 atoms and here's what happens remember we said that u-238 wouldn't support a chain reaction however it will capture neutrons from u-235 fission and start a process which converts the u-238 first to neptunium then to plutonium and plutonium will fission in chain reaction thus the reactor itself is a source of atomic fuel besides producing plutonium the nuclear reactor makes possible two very important peacetime uses of atomic energy remember that the chain reaction process in the reactor creates tremendous heat which scientists have learned how to control thus a reactor may be substituted in many industrial applications where heat is now provided by coal or petroleum but such uses in the foreseeable future are limited for one thing a reactor pile must be shielded to protect the workers around it from dangerous radiation and this shielding adds tremendous weight however an atomic energy power plant has already proved feasible the future supplying of electric power to entire cities is far from impossible while nuclear power in locomotives submarines ships and even very large airplanes may all but revolutionize future transportation on land sea and air but perhaps the most valuable byproduct of the nation's reactor piles is radioactive isotopes research has revealed that many elements not naturally radioactive became so when placed in a nuclear reactor and these isotopes working as tracers with such measuring devices as a Geiger counter became invisible detectives aiding the cause of science in many different fields [Music] in agriculture isotopes are now used to test such things as the effect of fertilizers on plant growth and the proper timing for their use helping to assure bigger and better yields from tomorrow's farms in industry isotopes have found literally hundreds of new uses such as the automatic thickness control of sheet aluminum saving hundreds of man-hours of labour and assuring accuracy never before possible in the fields of Medicine and biochemistry isotopes are performing near miracles of diagnosis and discovery with radioactive sodium doctors are solving more of the seeming mysteries of heart disease and circulatory disturbances radioactive phosphorus has been used to locate tumors in the brain and greatly simplify operations for their removal iodine-131 finds one of many uses in revealing conditions of the thyroid and there are many more new ways of using isotopes are being discovered constantly through the tireless work of modern pioneers in such fields as chemistry metallurgy medicine and biology truly the super power which man has released from within the Adams heart is not one but many giants one is the warrior the destroyer another is the engineer seeking to provide vast quantities of energy to run the world's machines another is the farmer helping to better feed tomorrow's world still another is the healer helping to diagnose and cure the sick and the last is the research worker working on in the fields of pure science to reveal more of the mysteries of the universe but all are within man's power subject to his command on man's wisdom on his firmness in the use of that power depends now the future of his children and his children's children in the new world of the Atomic Age [Music] we haven't seen anything yet darling hi all this was merely a sample of the real world of tomorrow [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 65min 29sec (3929 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 03 2018

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