Check out this photo of a Harley-Davidson Sportster engine being tested for a world record attempt in 1964! #ArchivesScience
From the archives is a photo from the engine testing department! The engineer added a thermocouple to a Panhead to measure the temperature of incoming air. This determined the right air and fuel mixture for best fuel combustion efficiency. #ArchivesScience #ArchivesHashtagParty
Max Freshley, Battelle-Northwest engineer, inspects the plutonium bearing fuel rods immersed in a cooling tank at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility in Hanford. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesScience
Another for the #Oppenheimer fans: Oak Ridge, TN, part of the #ManhattanProject , was known as the 'Secret City' and processed enriched uranium. The workers were never told the purpose of their jobs. Here, the Y-12 plant calutron operators are separating isotopes. #ArchivesScience
In this #ArchivesScience photo from 1909, prominent Pittsburgh astronomer John Brashear is shown with one of his telescopes on the terrace of the Frick family's summer home, Eagle Rock. 🔭 #ArchivesHashtagParty
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It’s electric! Benjamin Franklin’s electrical machine works by turning the wheel (which is a repurposed spinning wheel) causing the glass globe to rub against the leather pad producing static charges. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesScience
#ArchivesScience keeps our staff safe as they work to make important documents accessible to veterans and their families.
This photo was taken in our original testing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here they were testing the volumetric flow rate of oil through a 1921 Sport model engine.
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Witness history in the making! Check out this photo of Pres Bill Clinton sending the first-ever US presidential email to astronaut John Glenn in 1988 - an incredible event in the advances of science and technology.
We’re certainly not toying with today’s #ArchivesScience theme, but these vintage erector sets and tinker toys encouraged critical thinking and experimenting, building blocks to scientific advancement. #ArchivesHashtagParty
The NS Savannah, a registered National Historic Landmark and the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, was launched in 1959 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy as part of the Atoms for Peace Program. #ArchivesScience
Science in the archives can bring together many different interests & projects. Here Conservator Sue Donovan performs iron gall ink testing with test paper and ink made in the lab. This helps gauge the degree of deterioration & treatment outcomes of a document!
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Science in the Arctic is far from easy. In 1958, ice pedestals were formed beneath trailers on Ice Island T-3, a scientific research station on an ice island in the Arctic Ocean, due to extreme melting.
Photograph by Stanley Needleman
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Spiceland Academy students perform a chemistry experiment. Spiceland, Indiana, 1900.
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(Cephas Huddleston, Indiana Historical Society)
For today's #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesScience , we've got spooky scary skeletons 👻
Image from a biology class at a 'Portland public school, OR,' 1939, taken by a WPA photographer.
We've got the data to prove it: NASA has the right stuff when it comes to #ArchivesScience !
📷 In 1949, human computers obtain data from rows of manometers below the 18x18-inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel at NASAglenn. #ArchivesHashtagParty
The #ArchivesScience behind vinegar syndrome is that acetic acid offgasses from acetate film. In a tightly sealed can, the acid builds up and deteriorates the film & eats away at the paint and steel inside the can. Powerful stuff, this acid. #ArchivesHashtagParty
Do you have a hologram trophy? Not to brag, but Jimmy Carter has one. The Victoria Sporting Club International Award for Valour in Sport, by the Physics Department of Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England, to Pres. Carter 7/25/78. #ArchivesScience #ArchivesHashtagParty