To Enrich Mankind (1955)

[Music] la [Music] hello oh yes sir yes sir yes sir I understand yes sir I'll take care of it right away goodbye old Gus isn't going to like this Gus oh Gus that tone of voice at this time of day means just one thing trouble got the professor just called about those machine exhibits machines you know in those boxes he asked ask you to store in the north Wing old those will tell the prop to relax they're all stored away oh that's too bad I said that's too bad he now wants him set up in the South Wing the South wing and before the museum opens in the morning all the way to the other end of the building I'm sorry Gus another short notice tour a mechanical engineer is bringing in a group of high school students first thing tomorrow they like those exhibits for it okay who you got to help I'm afraid everyone else is gone Gus that leaves just you and me huh sorry committee meeting tonight absolutely essential I be there I'm sure of that now here's what the professor wants just follow these instructions and you'll have no trouble thanks a lot Gus I have to hurry on now good night good night once again old Gus has left holding the bag store them here store them there move them to the north Wing move them to the South Wing bunch of nonsense H what's so great about the mechanical engineering guys anyway machines lever pretty wonderful eh Archimedes pretty ridiculous if you ask me wheel and axle it says a pulley inclin plane looks like an outside Cellar Door to me the wedge and the screw and people actually come here to look at this stuff sure beat all what was that it's only me Gus it's just that I'm a little sensitive about that lever I had to do something about it now now look here you you can't go running around like this you're a statue there's nothing to worry about Gus but statues don't do that sort of thing not in this mum anyhow the museum is closed no yes but it opens at 9:00 in the morning and if you're prancing around here when those fellas come oh yes the mechanical engineer and his high school students come on on now back on your pedestal like a good statue please I was sort of a mechanical engineer myself you know fact is the principle of the lever was my Discovery okay anything you say and now I'm afraid you don't appreciate the tremendous significance of these simple devices Gus look I just work here and it's understandable after all it's it's not these machines but what has come from them that is so amazing yes Gus even I am amazed the way mechanical engineers have taken these simple principles represented here combined and adapted them to machines that do almost everything you know Gus all machines no matter how complicated are a combination one way or the other of these elements the lever wheel and XEL pulley incline plane wedge and the screw yes it's amazing when you stop and think about it huh what an imagination right that's just what it takes most of all creative imagination along with a burning interest in Science and Mathematics a large order of Ingenuity and a never-ending curiosity and the results of all this are all around you on all sides to enrich mankind think think about it Gus think hard use your imagination think think hello Gus I'm a farmer here's what mechanical engineering has done for all of us who work on the farms and for you too machines take the place of muscle now powerful tractors and all kinds of farm machinery take the tough hard work out of farming it's a lot different from the old days no sir no more long hours walking behind a plow No More laboring by hand to cultivate a crop no more backbreaking drudgery from morning toight today machines do all the hard work wherever you look on the farms across the land you'll see the burden of work taken off the farmer and put on machines wherever there is a job to be done power and machines take over doing more work in less time to provide more feed for livestock and a great abundance of food not only for more than 160 million people in our land today but for millions of people in other countries all over the world in 1900 one Farm worker could produce only enough for himself and six other people today with the help of machines he can produce enough for himself and 17 others think of it think of it Gus think of it thank pretty wonderful when you stop and think about it AAS but the important important thing is it took somebody with creative imagination to see how these simple principles could be applied before those F machines could become real and who were the somebodies mechanical engineers you've been married 30 years haven't you Gus how' you know that standing around as I do I overhear a lot of things during the years all the various machines you've bought for your wife ever stopped to think what they've meant to her think what she could say about him Gus remember remember remember every Appliance you brought me Gus has made living easier life more pleasant there are so many wonderful machines a woman has today to help her in her work just just flip a switch or turn a knob and press toe food cooked deliciously and automatically not only in the oven but any other way she likes it prepared dishwashing automatically done without fuss or bother and wash days so simple now compared to the days when we were first married Gus no matter what the job is there are machines to take the hard work out of it and that new home freezer you just bought me Gus one more thing to give me extra free time to enjoy myself more time for us both to enjoy ourselves yeah that's true but it's hard for me to swallow how those electrical appliances we use around the house tie back to these things Oh you mean because electricity supplies the power if I didn't know you so well I think you were just just plain stubborn gusts it's like this without machines there'd be no power electrical steam or whatever kind that's where the mechanical engineer comes in designing machines which produce power actually there is nothing that affects your life that mechanical engineering hasn't touched one way or another put your imagination to work again Gus let it run away with you and you'll see for yourself for instance in steel plants Machines of many kinds giant furnaces that make thousands of kinds of special steel powerful rollers that squeeze and form the metal in various shapes other manufacturers use to produce something you seldom see or some little thing everyone is familiar with because of machines your food is better there is more of it and in greater variety mechanical engineers have developed machinery for quick freezing Foods in the field and looking to the Future work is being done on the development of atomic Isotopes for long safe food preservation everywhere you look there are machines some of them almost human that do many amazing things you know us a long time ago Leonardo D Vinci had an idea about flying machines while his machines were practical his ideas were too far ahead of the people and the times and he worked alone today's progress comes from Engineers working together sharing their knowledge and effort in a way unknown in dainan there were no professional organiz ganizations like the American Society of mechanical engineers to stimulate such progress and understanding as a result of those organizations today fast safe flying machines have reduced the whole world to a small neighborhood today almost everyone in America enjoys his own personal transportation system and businesses carry their Wares to your own doorstep to build these things tools are needed to design and build the machines that make tools again mechanical engineers are needed so when you travel about in your car using all the mechanical advantages it affords such as power steering think of all the machines the thousands of operations large and small that have come together to to make your trip possible and mechanical engineers have had a hand in every one of them and good as your car may be today even now there are young men with imagination who will create a car far better this creative work never stops there will always be Engineers who conceive things and what a man conceives he can do think for a moment what a mechanic iCal engineer might tell you about his job just imagine what he'd say Gus our work is far-reaching Gus you find it everywhere you see it's our job to take raw materials adapt them to useful forms take Natural Forces harness them to do man's work technically speaking we design build and use apparatus that generates transmits and uses power that just about covers the Waterfront for instance you will find the results of our work in powerful diesel or gas turbine engines working on the railroads in the new types of power plants for propelling ships across the seas and other mechanical devices that make it possible to reach the Deep caverns of the Earth or natural gas or oil and do hundreds of other tremendous jobs necessary to carry the natural resources to the places where industry transforms them into useful things people need and enjoy and there's hardly anything that mechanical engineering has not touched in some way giant shovels for mining iron ore and massive loading apparatus to load ore into ships were once only ideas of an engineer in great forests Timber is prepared for the wood industry home construction or for the things you like to make yourself in every home the result of mechanical engineering is on all sides controls for heating in Winter and air conditioning ing in summer and the equipment itself would not have been possible without mechanical engineering behind every flick of a switch is a great power plant whose steam boilers and turbines generate electricity for providing instant light or power Joy amusement and happiness are a result of mechanical engineering pleasure in enjoying Carefree moments Outdoors or the entertainment of your choice the news of the world in newspapers or magazines The Adventurous land of fiction are yours to enjoy because of mechanical engineering we could go on for hours Gus telling you about the thousands of machines developed by Engineers to make the things you use every day of your life imagine imagine imagine it it's really astonishing us that all those machines of developments and adaptations of these six simple ones I once said if I had a place to stand I could move the Earth but there'd be no point to that what the engineers have done with the idea is the important thing that hand truck you use every day is a simple example that affects you by golly I never thought of that mechanical engineers work right along with other Engineers too like civil engineers and in mining and Metallurgy in chemistry in electricity in just about every field of engineering you'll find a mechanical engineer these mechanical engineers they do about everything don't they indeed they do Gus you can't fit him into a precise slot for instance he may be a machine designer working with electrical engineers to make some machine more efficient he may be a specialist in scientific management applying the science of mathematics to quality control or lowering costs or an engineer working on ways to improve the optical systems of your camera to give you finer pictures you may be an aircraft designer who will solve one of the problems of the thermal barrier in supersonic flight or he may be a young man who has never worked on a farm but who has newer ideas on better ways to harvest peack or ship a crop again he may be a designer of a catalytic cracking plant or the designer of oil refineries or the designer of machines used in the petroleum and chemical Industries and you'll find the result of his work in the design of machinery for better logging operations and in the design of tools for better woodworking he may be a professor who spends a lifetime in the classroom but whose hundreds of students will go out year after year adventuring and pioneering to improve your life and everyone's the laboratory may be his world where he can experiment with ways to handle radioactive materials without exposing human beings to The Perils of radiation or he may be working on plans for a man-made satellite or machines for interplanetary travel or improving ways to adapt Atomic power to drive vessels or vehicles or to produce electricity in power stations all these people different though their work may be are mechanical engineers they followed those who first fitted a piece of stone into a wood handle they followed the Builders of the pyramids the inventor of the bow and arrow The Men Who harness the power of steam don't you realize Gus the whole history of this land of yours is reflected in mechanical engineering and that machines are responsible for your country's vast production effort for all the things that make life worth living if this keeps up it won't be long before machines will do everything nobody will have work noas machines create jobs throughout the years new machines have always meant newer and greater opportunities for people and more people are at work because of them the Koso wagon that carried a whole nation to the Western Skies the in that released thousands from hard work and increased production manyfold the steamboat that put James Watt steam engine to work on the [Music] ocean the first locomotive the reaper the sewing machine the elevator the air BR the automobile the linotype machine the airplane and thousands of other inventions and now the atom from which will come developments that no one can foresee and in which the mechanical engineer will play his part perhaps now you can understand why these simple machines are so important they are The Shining symbols of Hope security and happiness for the future for you and for the benefit of all you know I never realized just how much these things meant until [Music] now [Music] you [Music] yes Gus and as time goes on the ideas of today's engineers and the engineers of Tomorrow will make them mean much more the rapid progress in the past 75 years is a direct result of Engineers sharing knowledge with each other and it is through organizations like the American Society of mechanical engineers that the accumulated knowledge and experience of many individuals have been spread through the profession of mechanical engineering to enrich mankind