1964 & 1965 Official Guidebook & Souvenir Map Entries

The description of this
exhibit from the 1964
Official Guide Book

SKF

Motion engineering is the theme expressed under the SKF parasol, a circular roof which soars to an 82-foot needle at its apex. SKF Industries, Inc., the American affiliate of a worldwide complex of ball and roller bearing manufacturers, uses an illustrated lecture and an exhibit of finished products to show how it helps keep the machines of civilization running.

* Admission: free.

Highlights

SOUND AND LIGHT. In a 70-seat theater to the right of the main entrance, brilliantly lit stylized images illustrate a six-minute sound track tracing the history of motion engineering and roller bearings. The continuous show starts with the wheel and ends with rockets.

MATTER IN MOTION. Beside the theater is a display of objects that use bearings from a kitchen mixer to a truck axle, cut away to disclose their mechanical interiors. Another display area demonstrates some of the industry's production problems and how they are solved.

The description of this
exhibit from the 1965
Official Guide Book

SKF

A mechanical man introduces a film showing man's progress in locomotion; a wide range of equipment using ball and roller bearings is displayed. SKF Industries, Inc., a world-wide manufacturer of ball and roller bearings, dramatizes its part in building the machines that make civilization run.

PROGRESS. Four screens and stop-motion techniques are used in a humorous film on the evolution of antifriction devices through history.

PRODUCTS. On display, full scale or in models, are many machines that use bearings: kitchen equipment, autos and trucks, railroad cars, submarines, helicopters and missiles.

¶ Admission: free.