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Sandia Spinoff

Reel Number: 221528-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA

Location: Albuquerque,New Mexico

TC Begins: 05:01:40

TC Ends: 05:15:49

Duration: 00:14:09

Sandia Spinoff CU switch for nuclear engineering applications. Diagram showing piston, spring & magnet describing small tolerances & reliability. 05:02:36 MCU of switch in hand. Men working in ultra clean environment; technicians. Animation of bombs spinning into peace-time applications as spinoffs. Title: Sandia Spinoff. 05:03:19 White glove holding tiny “nuclear weapon components”. Narration re cleaner environments. MCU machine assembling chip; men & women cleaning room. Animation showing movement of dust particles & air handling. Actual filters in ceiling, tilt down to men working & on down to metal floor where air is drawn out thru grated floor. Demonstration of laminar filtration principle by filling room w/ smoke, CU switch on & room emptied of smoke. Men assembling foil & ?? for printed circuits. 05:05:29 Pass through window & people working in clean room assembling television color camera tubes. 05:05:51 Men installing filter system. Hospital operating room w/ laminar filtering. Doctors operating. 05:06:34 Ion plating. CU of surface to be plated. Diagram showing atoms w/ rust forming to block plating. 05:07:15 Block of aluminum coated w/ gold; peeled off due to oxides. Animation showing incompatible atoms. CU silver onto iron plate but peeled off. Technician lowering glass hood for vacuum depositing unit. Shown placing material onto annode; material to be plated is cathode. Nobs, gage. Animation showing plating process as coating is built up. 05:10:15 Copper & molybdenum which would be incompatible otherwise. Animation showing tight bond. 05:10:46 Gold chain jewelry on display stand. Scale balance in case. Switch. Ion plating watched by technician. MCU hand holding printed circuit board. Shown in CU. Technician w/ drawn surface board to be acid etched. Hand holding circuit board. 05:11:53 Drafting room w/ men working at boards drawing layouts. Main frame computers, tapes running, lights blinking. Engineer drawing rough schematic, hands it to woman, clerk, who draws a grid over it, feeds information into computer on punch card. Print out of results & instructions. Computer visuals showing layout developed & stored on magnetic tape. Then onto film. Technician enlarges & makes etching. 05:14:52 Large electronic camera & other electronics. Operating room, ion plating, automated printed circuits. 05:15:17 POV on desert high way w/ map of US outline w/ unid. locations overlayed; road & cars past small roadside businesses. End credits. Atomic Energy Commission; Sandia Laboratory; Peaceful uses; Technology;

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