Cutting and canaling ice

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2010 · Education

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SUMMARY
The camera shows what appears to be a frozen-over lake on which men are driving teams of horses pulling a device similar to a plow. The second camera position shows that the horses are being driven in a straight line across the ice, with the device chiseling a groove, called canaling, into the ice. This action precedes removal of the ice for storage so it can be used during the summer.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14436.
Filmed in Groton Ice Fields, Mass.[?]
SUBJECTS
Ice industry.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
awal 1555 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1555

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