Testing Collection (#2)

Scott Crossfield Mach 2 flight. Creator: Unknown
Scott Crossfield after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953. Naval officer and test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to Mach 2, or more than 1

Jerrie Cobb testing gimbal rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel, USA, c1950s. Creator: NASA
Jerrie Cobb is tested in the Gimbal Rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel, USA, c1950s. American pilot and aviator Jerrie Cobb at the Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Wright Flyer test flights at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, September 3, 1908. In January 1908, as a response to a War Department request for a " Heavier-than-air Flying Machine"

Scott Crossfield... after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953
Scott Crossfield in the cockpit of the D-558-2 after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953. Naval officer and test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to Mach 2

Access biofuels flight tests, USA. Creator: NASA
Access biofuels flight tests, USA. Highly modified Douglas DC-8 jetliner, (manufactured 1958-1972), used by NASA as a flying science laboratory

Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. Creator: NASA
Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. On October 24, 1911 Orville tested a new glider and broke all the previous gliding records by actually soaring

Lunar Rendezvous Simulator, 1962. Creator: NASA
Lunar Rendezvous Simulator, 1962. The Lunar Rendezvous Simulator at Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA

Access II emissions research, USA, 2014. Creator: NASA
Access II emissions research, USA, 2014. In May 2014, National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers began taking to the skies with a DC-8

Pathfinder aircraft test flight, USA, July 27, 1995. Creator: NASA
Pathfinder aircraft test flight, USA, July 27, 1995. The Pathfinder was one of several unmanned aircraft being evaluated under NASAs Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)

LDSD retrieval, June 28, 2014. Creator: NASA
LDSD retrieval, June 28, 2014. NASAs Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) is lifted aboard the Kahana recovery vessel. The LDSD launch tested technologies for landing large payloads on Mars

Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS), 1938-1941
This is American Rocket Society (ARS) Test Stand Stand No. 2 used in ground tests of experimental rocket motors. Built in 1938, it had a thrust capacity of 200 pounds

The Persecution of Job. Creator: Georg Pencz
The Persecution of Job

Satan Smiting Job with Boils, 1825. Creator: William Blake
Satan Smiting Job with Boils, 1825

The sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham, ca. 1640-42. Creator: Pietro Testa
The sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham, ca. 1640-42

Bridge on Orange and Alexandria Rail Road, as Repaired by Army Engineers under Colonel Herman Haupt, 1865. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

Healey Elliott on test in Italy 1946. Creator: Unknown
Healey Elliott on test in Italy 1946

1908 Deasy testing pedestrian road safety device. Creator: Unknown
1908 Deasy testing pedestrian road safety device

Firing the 111-Ton Gun... at Woolwich, June 1887, (1901). Creator: Unknown
Firing the 111-Ton Gun, with 1800-lb. projectile and 960-lb. of gunpowder, at Woolwich, June 1887, (1901). William Armstrongs monster gun which was then the largest gun in existence

Motor-Car Equipped with the New Storage Battery, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Motor-Car Equipped with the New Storage Battery, 1902. From " The Windsor Magazine Vol. XVI - June to November 1902". [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1902]

There Are No Poison Scares In The Dominions Of The Tsar, 1901 Creator: Unknown
There Are No Poison Scares In The Dominions Of The Tsar. The Government Analyst Tests All The Liquor During Its Manufacture, 1901. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich (1868-1918) was Tsar at this time

Testing the patella reflex for indication of nervous disease, c1935
The Twentieth-Century Doctor Guards Health in the Rising Generation - Testing the patella reflex for indication of nervous disease, c1935

Ictineo Submarine, built by Narcis Monturiol in 1859, the Ictineo ready for testing in the port of Barcelona

Testing gas pressure in street lighting, Westminster, London, 1910. A man holds the ladder for his bowler-hatted colleague who is testing the pressure in a gas streetlight

Lagonda of WM Couper performing a braking test, MCC Exeter Trial, Ibberton Hill, Dorset, 1930
Lagonda 1954 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. PL1245. Event Entry No: 266. Driver: W.M. Couper. Award: Gold. Place: Ibberton Hill, Dorset. Special braking test. Date: 26/27.12.30

1931 Austin 16 / 6 on a road test, Torquay, Devon. Artist: Bill Brunell
Austin 16/6 1931 2249 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. GP8679. Place: Torquay. Road test

Kitty Brunell road testing a 1931 Delage D8. Artist: Bill Brunell
Delage D8 1931 4050 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. GP1230. Driver: Brunell, Miss. K. Place: Road test

Kitty Brunell road testing a MG 18 / 80, Tan Hill, Yorkshire, April 1931. Artist: Bill Brunell
MG 18/80 2468 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. JO530. Driver: Brunell, Miss. K. Place: Tan Hill, Yorkshire. Road test. Date: Apr 1931

Kitty Brunell road testing a MG 18 / 80, April 1931. Artist: Bill Brunell
MG 18/80 2468 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. JO530. Driver: Brunell, Miss. K. Place: Road test. Date: Apr 1931

Hampton Institute, Va. 1899 - Classroom scenes - testing combined draught of animals, 1899 or 1900
Hampton Institute, Va. 1899 - Classroom scenes - testintg combined draught of animals, 1899 or 1900

Hartley Soule with Fairchild 22, Langley Field, Virginia, USA, April 25, 1932. American aerospace engineer Hartley Soule stands in front of a Fairchild 22 monoplane with a leading edge high lift

Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Creator: Unknown
Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Aviation pioneer Richard Whitcomb worked at the Langley Research Center in Virginia throughout his exceptionally prolific life

Flying boat construction, Virginia, USA, April 24, 1946. Creator: Unknown
Flying boat construction, Virginia, USA, April 24, 1946. Male and female technicians at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now NASAs Langley Research Center)

Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957. Creator: Unknown
Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957. Engineers at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory making a check on the body of a model of a supersonic aircraft before a test run

The test bakery at Spillers Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 1962. As producers of flour for a large proportion of the nations commercial bakeries

Lab testing at the Park Gate Iron & Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964

Technicians working at the Park Gate Iron & Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1966. Technicians from the British Oxygen Company using vibration testing equipment

A lab technician undertaking a coal flow test, Mapperley Colliery, Derbyshire, 1962

Testing the temperature of molten steel, Park Gate, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. Steelworkers test the temperature of molten steel with an immersion pyrometer at the Park Gate Iron

Crack detection on steel bars at J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A dye penetrant is poured onto the steel

Ultrasonic testing of steel, J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. In part of the warehouse storing flat steel bars

An Impact Test in the Dunlop Test House, 1937. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell. [Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1937]

A roadster tyre under test, 1937. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell. [Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1937]

One of Sir Malcolm Campbells tyres running at 300 m. p. h. 1937
One of Sir Malcolm Campbells tyres running at 300 m.p.h. 1937. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell. [Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1937]

Research worker with microscope (testing the structure of an aluminium alloy), 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Research worker with microscope (testing the structure of an aluminium alloy), 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Apprentice with microscope (testing the hardness of pistons), 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Apprentice with microscope (testing the hardness of pistons), 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Loom of life (testing parachutes for the Fleet Air Arm, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Loom of life (testing parachutes for the Fleet Air Arm), 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

The upper component of the Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft Mercury, c1929 (c1937)
The upper component of the Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft Mercury undergoing flight trials at Rochester, Kent, c1929 (c1937)

High voltage test house, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

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