Heat And Its Control

Duration: 20 min

Year Published: 1942

Creator: United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Produced in collaboration with Johns-Manville. "Emphasizes value of heat in accomplishing most of the world's work, and its control by insulation. Pictures religious veneration of sun and flame centuries ago, and re-enacts the research work of James Watt. Shows fabrication of rock wool insulation; uses of this material in homes and industry. Closing scenes show some of the uses of insulation in covering huge boilers, in lining rotary kilns, in the petroleum and iron industries." "Useful to observe the effects of heat, uncontrolled; to learn how heat is transferred by conduction, convection, and radiation; to observe the manufacture and use of some insulators." Washington state

Complete Record: Dewey number: 697 Audience level: jh-sh-trade Format/cost: 16-sd-loan Distributors / rental: Chicago Board of Education Film Council loan; University System of Georgia, Division of General Extension $1; University of Illinois 75c; Indiana University 50c; University of Kentucky 50c; University of Minnesota; University of Missouri 50c; Montana State Library of Visual Aids loan; New Jersey State Museum; Oregon State System of Higher Education 50c; Syracuse University 50c; University of Texas; State College of Washington 60c; University of Wisconsin $1

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946