Technology Collection (page 21)

Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII, V-12 Engine, Circa 1917-1922. Creator: Rolls-Royce
The Eagle was the first production Rolls-Royce aircraft engine to be used in service during World War I. Resulting from a 1914 British Admiralty requirement for an engine of about 186 kw (250 hp)

Balloon Basket, USMC, World War I, 1910s. Creator: Unknown
63in. long, 37in. wide, 53in. high; cane basket with silver canvas cover

Douglas DC-3, ca. 1930s. Creator: Douglas Aircraft Company
Twin-engined monoplane in Eastern Airlines livery. First flown in 1935, the Douglas DC-3 became the most successful airliner in the formative years of air transportation

Beacon and Tower, Airway. Creator: Unknown
Airways Beacon Light, last one operational in USA. A 24" rotating beacon light, with coded red signal light and control units. Night flying presented special hazards for air mail pilots

Clerget 9 A Diesel, Radial 9 Engine, ca. 1928. Creator: Panhard-Levassor
Pierre Clerget was inspired by the Gnome to produce a supposedly improved rotary engine in 1911. It was a 7-cylinder, 11.88 liter (725 cu in) engine rated at 60 kW (80 hp) at 1, 200 rpm

Camera, 35mm, Glenn, Friendship 7, ca. 1962. Creator: Minolta
With this camera, an Ansco Autoset model, astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. took the first human-captured, color still photographs of the Earth during his three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962

Capsule, Mercury, MA-6, 1962. Creator: McDonnell Aircraft Corp
In this historic capsule, John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenns flight was the third manned mission of Project Mercury

Boeing-Stearman N2S-5 Kaydet, 1943. Creator: Boeing-Stearman
Biplane trainer, yellow. Over 10, 000 Stearman trainers were built by Boeings Wichita Division, which had purchased the Stearman Company in the late 1930s

Bleriot XI, 1914. Creator: Bleriot Aeronautique
Tractor monoplane with one 50-horsepower Gnome seven-cylinder rotary engine. Wing warping laterial control. Castering landing gear. Natural finish overall with black markings

Curtiss Ricardo R-6, In-line 6 Engine, ca. 1921. Creator
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 at Hammondsport, New York

Curtiss C-4 or D-4, In-line 4 Engine, ca. 1907. Creator
This engine, built by the Glenn H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company of Hammondsport, New York, about 1907 is believed to be a Model C-4 or D-4 engine

Lockheed Vega 5B flown by Amelia Earhart, 1927-1929. Creator
NR7952. High-speed cabin monoplane with cantilever wings and streamlined design. On May 20-21, 1932, Amelia Earhart flew this Vega across the Atlantic Ocean becoming the first woman to fly

Douglas D-558-2, ca. 1950s. Creator: Douglas Aircraft Company
White, US Navy, single-seat, rocket-powered supersonic aircraft. Piloted by A. Scott Crossfield, on November 20, 1953, the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket became the first aircraft to fly faster than Mach

Beechcraft 35 Bonanza, 1947-1981. Creator: Beech Aircraft Corporation
N80040; four-seat, single-engine, " V-tail" general aviation and business aircraft; William P. Odom flew " Waikiki Beech" on a record-breaking Honolulu to Teterboro

Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine, 1966
This is a Descent Engine designed by Space Technology Laboratories as used on the Project Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LM) to land on the Moon

Whittle W. 1X Turbojet Engine, 1941. Creator: Power Jets
Sir Frank Whittles jet aircraft engine was patented in 1932, and Power Jets, Ltd. formed in 1936. The Whittle Unit bench test engine first ran on April 12, 1937

Lunar Orbiter, Engineering Mock-up, 1960s. Creator: Boeing Aircraft Co
Lunar Orbiter was the project that mapped the Moon in preparation for the Apollo landings. A total of five Lunar Orbiters were flown to the Moon

Mitsubishi A6M5 Reisen (Zero Fighter) Model 52 ZEKE, 1943
Single-engine, low-wing fighter. No other aircraft surpasses the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (" ree-sin, " Japanese for Zero Fighter) as the symbol of Japanese air power during World War II

BMW Model IIIA In-line 6 Engine, 1918. Creator: BMW
The Daimler-Benz companys virtual monopoly on the production of aircraft engines in Germany stifled research and development of other engines

Packard B-12 (Model 905), V-12 Engine, Circa 1916. Creator: Packard Motor Car Company
The Model 905 was the second of the early aircraft engine designs of the Packard Motor Car Company, located in Detroit, Michigan

Fuel Cell, Gemini, Cutaway, ca. 1965. Creator: General Electric Company
This fuel cell is a cutaway version of the electric-power generating device used on the two-astronaut Gemini spacecraft during ten missions in 1965-66

Missile, Cruise, V-1 (Fi 103, FZG 76), ca. 1945. Creator: Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH
The V-1 (Vergeltungswaffe Eins, or Vengeance Weapon One), was the worlds first operational cruise missile. This name was given to it by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry

Hitachi Hatsukaze 11, Ha 11 Model 11, Inverted In-line 4 Engine, 1941
The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi manufactured aircraft engines from about 1929 until the end of World War II, with a concentration on low-power seven and nine cylinder radials

Curtiss Chieftain H-1640, Radial 12 Engine, ca. 1928. Creator
Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss of Hammondsport, New York

Curtiss K-12, V-12 Engine, ca. 1918. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
In 1916 Curtiss engineer Charles Kirkham began designing an engine to compete with the Wright Corporations Hispano-Suiza. By late 1917, the prototype K-12 (K for Kirkham) was bench tested

Hispano-Suiza 12YCRS V-12 Engine, ca. 1932. Creator: Hispano-Suiza
Marc Birkigt, an inventor of Swiss origin, developed Hispano-Suiza (meaning Spanish-Swiss) engines, and first manufactured them in Barcelona for use in automobiles

Union Type 1-6, In-line 6 Engine, ca. 1917. Creator: Union Gas Engine Company
The Union Gas Engine Company of Oakland, California began producing marine engines in 1885, and started experimental construction of an aircraft engine in 1915

Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, 1950s. Creator: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Known as " the missile with a man in it, " the stubby-winged Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was the first U.S. jet fighter in service to fly Mach 2, twice the speed of sound

Bell H-13J, ca. 1957. Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc
All-metal helicopter with single main rotor and single tail rotor, powered by reciprocating engine, equipped with skid landing gear made of metal tube, fitted with large

Liberty 12 Model A (Packard), Moss Turbosupercharged, V-12 Engine, October 31, 1918
The Liberty engine was Americas most important contribution to aeronautical technology during World War I. Jesse G. Vincent of Packard and Elbert J

Mignet HM. 14 Pou du Ciel "La Cucaracha", 1935. Creator: Edward Nirmaier
Frenchman Henri Mignet designed the HM.14 Pou du Ciel (Flying Flea) in 1933. He envisioned a simple aircraft that amateurs could build and even teach themselves to fly

Packard 1A-2775 X-24 Engine, Circa 1927. Creator: Packard Motor Car Company
The Packard Motor Car Company produced the worlds first quantity-production 12-cylinder automobile in in 1916, and belief in that engine carried over to aviation in the following year

Paraglider Research Vehicle (Paresev) 1-A, Gemini, 1960s. Creator: NASA
From 1962 to 1964, NASA used the Paresev to develop the technology for landing the two-man Gemini capsule on land, instead of parachuting into the ocean, as had been done in Project Mercury

Packard 3A-2500 Geared Drive, V-12 Engine, 1926. Creator: Packard Motor Car Company
The Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan produced the worlds first quantity-production 12-cylinder automobile in in 1916

Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe (Swallow), 1940s. Creator: Messerschmitt A. G
Twin engine, single seat, low wing, jet fighter. Nicknamed Schwalbe (Swallow), the Messerschmitt Me 262 surpassed the performance of every other World War II fighter

Mitsubishi Ha 42 Model 41 Ru (Ha 214 Ru), Radial 18 Engine, ca. World War II
Mitsubishi was the first and largest series producer of Japanese engines during World War II, with a 1937 Pratt & Whitney arrangement possibly contributing to this success

Lifting Body, M2-F3, 1960s. Creator: Northrop Norair
This M2-F3 lifting body was a heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. This F3 is the F2 re-built after a landing accident seriously damaged the M2-F2

Mercury Capsule, 1959. Creator: NASA
On September 9, 1959, NASA launched this unoccupied Mercury spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital flight that lasted 13 minutes

Satellite, Pioneer I, Reconstructed Replica, 1963. Creator
This is a replica of a Pioneer satellite intended to orbit the moon. Pioneer 1 was launched on October 11, 1958, but the final velocity was insufficient to escape the earths gravity

North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang, 1945. Creator: North American Aviation Inc
Single-engine, low-wing, long-range fighter. 1, 128 cm (444 in.), Length 983 cm (387 in.), Height 371 cm (146 in.), Weight 3, 465 kg (7, 635 lb)

Rolls-Royce Condor IA, V-12 Engine, 1921. Creator: Rolls-Royce
Following its success as an automobile manufacturer, Rolls-Royce, Ltd. began design and development of aircraft engines at the request of the British Admiralty at the beginning of World War I

Curtiss Conqueror V-1570-53 (G1V-1570-F), V-12 Engine, ca. 1928
Glenn Curtiss of Hammondsport, New York, who built and raced bicycles early in the twentieth century, later raced, designed and built motorcycles and motorcycle engines

Royal Aircraft Factory RAF-1a, V-8 Engine, ca. 1914. Creator: Royal Aircraft Factory
During World War I several types of aircraft engines were designed and developed by the Royal Aircraft Factory, a government facility located in Farnborough, England

Aeronautica Macchi C. 202 Folgore, 1940s. Creator: Macchi S. A
Single-seat, single-engine, low-wing monoplane fighter of all-metal monocoque construction; retractable, tailwheel-type landing gear

Goodyear "Pilgrim"Gondola, 1920s. Creator: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Metal enclosure with plexiglas windows, painted silver with blue and yellow stripes; wood paneled interior with pilots seat and 2 passenger seats; 3 cylinder radial engine, 4 bladed propeller

Maybach In-line 6 Engine, ca. 1916-1917. Creator: Maybach Motorenbau
This World War I engine, built by Germanys Maybach, was of the type that powered the Zeppelin, Schutte-Lanz, and Parseval airships or airplanes such as the Rumpler C4 and C5

Hughes H-1 Racer, ca. 1935. Creators: Hughes Aircraft Co. Glenn Odekirk
Experimental, single engine, monoplane for air racing; wood wings with blue paint; yellow markings; bare aluminum fuselage

Capsule, Mercury #15B, ca. 1963. Creator: McDonnell Aircraft Corp
This Mercury capsule, number 15B, is one of two left showing the complete one-man spacecraft in its orbital configuration

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