The United States is a nation of many stories. These are but a few of them. Don miller is a pewtermsith. He works in harpers ferry, west virginia. I am more interested people who are here made things ended things. I am treading on the same ground making things. Harpers during the civil war john brown attacked the town and captured the arsenal. John brown thought he had a Divine Commission to destroy slavery. After he was captured and hanged, the people of the north looked upon him as a martyr to because of abolition. Im trying to preserve the spirit of individualism by using my hands to make things. I am making a personal statement, a sort of prayer. I have been a pewtersmith for 13 years. The important part of the word is smith, somebody who hand forms metal. I like to see things i make used. It breaks my heart to see anything ive made in a museum. I make it so people can feel it and touch it and use it. People are hungry for works with personality that have been touched by human hands. This photograph conveys a great deal of useful information. Though it is in two dimensions, it fails to reveal the subject is very appealing. This photo conveys much more information because it is in three dimensions and we comprehend in that way. The scanning electron microscope evolved because scientists needed an instrument to see in three dimensions in the microscopic world. A case of wire mesh looks like a flat diagram when photographed through a conventional microscope. Knowledge and technical skill are required to interpret it correctly. Viewed through the scanning electron microscope, the mesh is seen in three dimensions. It is more immediately recognized and understood. The scanning microscope, developed through research, is an outgrowth of the conventional microscope. It resembles a closed Circuit Television system. This is a threedimensional view of human blood sales. The image can be enlarged up to 30,000 times. As with other microscopes, images can be photographed. Seeing the size and shape in three dimensions enable scientists to relate shapes with diseases. If an observer wants to get a view inside the red blood cell, he can blast away the surface membrane with electrically charged atoms and get a look at the structure underneath. This tiny arena animal looks like this. Under the conventional electron microscope, the jaw becomes a diagram. With this microscope, we can see the architecture of the jaw. These organisms called e. Coli are bacteria found in the human colon. When exposed to penicillin, these bacteria die. This shows us the process at work. The disintegration of a harmful bacteria. The eye is a window through which we view the passing world. If we examine this remarkable microscopic, it looks like a view of a distant planet sent back by a spacecraft. But we are looking at the cells of the human cornea. The familiar light microscope has a magnification of 1500 times. The conventional electron microscope can magnify up to 300,000 times. The scanning electron microscope can magnify up to 30,000 times. Its value to science is how it sees. A new world emerges. These are rare glimpses of commonplace things. This is a closeup of the new york times. This is not a cactus, but a grain of pollen felt but never seen by hayfever sufferers. This is not an archaeological dig but a view of the layers the human tooth. And these are the rods and cones of a salamanders eye. This grove is human hair. This is the eye of the tiny animal we saw earlier. And this is a view of a tongue tip, taste buds visible on the stems. The scanning electron microscope lets see the shapes of worlds within worlds and gives a scientist a vital tool for the benefit of all mankind. In the dead of night, while others sleep, they begin their day. A long day. Most of it to be spent on the shores of maryland. Gil and his son get oysters from the chesapeake bay. Watermen relish the challenge of the unknown. Once there were thousands of them, but the number has dwindled because of pollution and overharvesting. Young people can find easier jobs. Even so, the traditional oystering goes on. Efforts have been made to protect the oysters. Sons like bob can continue the work of their fathers. Start her up. Ok. Gils boat is a small craft with bits and pieces of machinery locally bought. In, winches, the pulley, all installed and maintained by father and son. Oysters lie on the top of the seabed and are harvested with tongs. The loss of oysters that can be harvested, if there is a question, it is thrown back to grow for another year. Working together, gil and son are able to get home sooner. The money bob earns he will use to make the operation even more efficient. How long are you going to be . Ok. It has been a good day. Father and son has his quota of 25 bushels, all the law allows. Bucket by bucket, the loading of the oysters begins. Large, refrigerated trucks weight to claim the catch. Oysters are considered a delicacy in the United States and giant trucks will carry them across the eastern seaboard. Finally the end of the 13 hour day is at hand. The watermen is paid and the oysters are on their way to the table. For two centuries, the watermen of maryland, an independent group of men, have cold their living from chesapeake bay, just as their forebears did and revolutionary days. We are beginning a new era in timekeeping. A watch is tested on a new. New watch testing machine. Almost instantly it determines how many seconds or minutes a watch may be off in a day. A conventional watch powered by a spring keeps accurate time to within four minutes a month. This watch is accurate within one minute a month. The newest watch uses a tiny battery to stimulate a crystal, accurate within one minute per year. The courts watch is more precise than the testing machine can measure. Today almost 99 of all watches are balance wheel watches powered by a mainspring. More modern watches will account for an increasing number of watches sold worldwide. The sale of quartz watches is expected to increase throughout the world as new Technology Becomes widespread. Much of the Technology Behind the timekeeping came from the miniaturization developed by the space program. The United States has imported more than 60 times its exports in watches and parts. A slow reversal has begun. The production of transistors and tiny circuits and the production of quartz and liquid crystals has begun to change the World Marketing outlook. The new quartz timepieces look like conventional watches. Digital models are very different. Digital watches are not yet perfected and are very expensive. Some believe they will become very popular. The new quartz watches are the beginning of a more accurate era in timekeeping. Watchmakers are slicing time into salt smaller and more accurate pieces. We see the results in an array of attractive new faces. She started using a camera in 1925. Today Barbara Morgan is one of the out bending photographers america has produced. With ansel adams, she developed a method of processing photographic prints which will last for centuries. Museums throughout the world ask Barbara Morgan to make the prints for their archives. She was among the early american photographers to work in photomontage. Her montages combined her basic interest, nature, the rhythmic forces and the structure of things. Long before the environment became a source of public concern, Barbara Morgan was creating images that would relieve the threat to our natural environment. In the 1920s, barbara married willard morgan, they would pile into the jalopy and head for the southwest. She to paint and he to take pictures. Camped out in the desert, they would study and photographed the region. Her observations of indian tribal dances influenced her series of photographs. For five years, her dances were reconceived for the camera in Barbara Morgans studios. She did not photograph in the literal dance, but the movements that were aspects of each dance to the photographer. The moment i had seen it, i had the feeling she had some contact spiritually with indian ritual. By a strange state i met martha and asked her that question. She said of course. I am deeply involved with the indian approach. Almost all of her images are metaphors. She has a vision of order and harmony which inspired her life long before oriental philosophy became the popular. Her preoccupation with motion and light dominate her work, which appears in book after book. Her photographs of children are deceptively simple. They appeared to be about what children do. And when you reflect on them you understand they are photographs of human experiences. Only rarely of events. What children do and what affects their actions have interested her throughout her life. At 73, children flocked to Barbara Morgan. Perhaps because they sense she is able to help in the process of growing up. What has one eye, a voice, pedals, five gears, four wheels, is yellow all over, and holds one and a half people . It is a pedal powered people mover which you may buy for 500. You may pedal with one foot, or both feet. Its meant for short distance travel. All the energy it takes to make it go is your own. Its manufactured in connecticut. It is easy to maintain, does not pollute, and gives exercise. Especially going uphill. When your job keeps you running from building to building, it will keep you out of the rain. Its a more economical way to pick up little things. It parks and less space than any car. It can take you home from work or on any short trip. In all, it gets around very well. Although it cant pass much, it can always pass a gasoline station