Media item

Opening of new testing factories for technology

Week number 51-07

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:41
Publication date:
9 February 1951
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER510-HRE0000DF4D

Thanks to a donation by the Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij the Technical College Delft now has been able to built two testing factories for physical and chemical technology. In these factories the student receive practical education. Today the factories are officially handed over to prof. dr. G. Holst of the Technical College by the director of the BPM, H. Bloemgarten. Also present is a.o. the minister of Education, Arts and Sciences, dr. F.J.Th. Rutten. SHOTS: - Ext. and int. factories with installations; - Bloemgarten gives a speech in a classroom and hands over the key to Holst; - Rutten and company tour the factory. Note: Date according to card system Polygoon is January 9, 1951, according to other sources Ferbuary 9.