Aluminium Collection

Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul Ford, 1856. Creator: H. Crane
Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul [sic] Ford, 1856....Evigtok...in Arksuk [Arsuk] Fiord, with the miners houses, smithy, store-house...and the lead ore being wheeled over the ice to the ship...the

The International Exhibition: "Charles I. and his standard-bearer", in aluminium, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: "Charles I. and his standard-bearer", in aluminium, exhibited by Bell and Co. 1862

Nakajima Mamoru 11, Radial 14 Engine, Circa World War II. Creator: Fuji Koku Keiki
Nakajima provided Japan with its first large radials by building licensed Bristols beginning in the late 1920s, and Gnome-Rhone engines beginning in 1936

Earth Path Indicator, Mercury 4, 1961. Creator: Honeywell
The Mercury space capsule carried this device, designed by the Honeywell Corporation, which allowed the astronaut to see his orbital track and heading

A battery of 1, 000 and 2, 000 pound furnaces roaring threats to... Aluminum Industries Inc. 1942
A battery of 1, 000 and 2, 000 pound furnaces roaring threats to the Axis. These are rotary, oil-fired melting furnaces at Aluminum Industries Inc

Curtiss V-4, V-12 Engine, Circa 1915. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Toward the end of 1915, Curtiss conducted a design study for a large aircraft engine of 224 kW (300 hp) or more. The objective was a power plant for large seaplanes

Curtiss V-X, V-8 Engine, Circa 1915. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss in his factory in Hammondsport, New York

Thomas-Morse Model 8, V-8 Engine, 1917. Creators: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
The Thomas brothers of Upstate New York began experimenting and flying Curtiss-type aircraft in 1908, and developed their own aircraft in the 1909-10 period

Packard 2A-1500, Inverted V-12 Engine, Circa 1925. Creator: Packard Motor Car Company
In 1923, the Packard Motor Car Company began development of a new series of 12-cylinder aircraft engines that would more fully meet the requirements of the Army and Navy

Curtiss CD-12 Prototype (Serial Number 1) V-12 Engine, Circa1921
The CD-12 development history extended over several years, and involved a number of well regarded figures in the aircraft industry

Indicator, Directional Gyro, Sperry, Gyro-Mag. Creator: Sperry Corporation
Vacuum operated, ball bank indicator, 6 1/2 in. h. c.1935

Aluminum pot and lid used by Charles Lindbergh, 1931. Creator: Primus
Aluminum pot and lid used by Charles Lindbergh, 1931. This aluminum cooking pot was among the equipment American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sun Compass, Bumstead. Creator: Pioneer Instrument Company
85mm diameter, 110 high; 24 hour dial and azimuth scale; white on black

Altimeter, Zeppelin, L-49. Creator: G Lufft
Aluminum case, black face, luminous markings, scale 0-8 km

Drift Meter, Navy, Pioneer. Creator: Pioneer Instrument Company
Metal sight; in 51cm x 9cm x 17cm wood box; experimental

Corona panel designed for NMaHC (Type A: 65% opacity), ca. 2013
An openwork cast aluminum panel of the type used to fabricate the cladding that covers the exterior of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Voting machine used in the 2000 Presidential election, ca. 1990. Creator: Unknown
A Votomatic III vote recorder that folds up into a metal briefcase with a black plastic handle when closed. The briefcase has four circular rubber pads on each side

Schütte-Lanz airship, c1915, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Schütte-Lanz airship, c1915, (1932). Airship with aluminium framework, one of a series of rigid airships designed and built by the Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz company

A bedroom in a country house, by Duncan Miller, London, 1936. Waxed pine floor, bedhead and table tops in rough-cast glass, bed coverings and stool in quilted chintz, with aluminium base to stool

A midget radio cabinet in wood veneer, with aluminum grill and dials, 1935. Artist: Dana Merrill
A midget radio cabinet in wood veneer, with aluminum grill and dials, designed by Russel Wright, New York, 1935. From Decorative Art 1935 - Year-Book of The Studio, by C.G. Holme

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]

Piccadilly Circus, Westminster, London, c1910 (1911). Artist: Photochrom Co Ltd of London
Piccadilly Circus, Westminster, London, c1910 (1911). The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain by Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) is dedicated to the memory of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885)

Appeal for aluminum, 1940, (1940). On 9th July 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, made an appeal for the nation to provide aluminum found in household objects to be used in

Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955). In 1854 Deville (1818-1881) discovered the process for obtaining pure aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium

Page from a golf equipment catalogue, c1920-c1960. The page shows illustrations of part of the range of golf clubs manufactured by The Burke Golf Company of Newark, Ohio, USA

Mills patent aluminium putters, c1900s. Two pages from a golf equipment catalogue, with illustrations of a range of putters

Burke Golf Co catalogue showing putters and ladies iron golf clubs, c1920s

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