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Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Transonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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Summary

Significance: The Transonic Wind Tunnel Building is an aviation testing facility contained within the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division Historic District. Naval Surface Warfare Center is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of military technology. The research facilities at NSWC have provided the U.S. Navy with accurate, cost effective data on air and sea vehicle performance, and have made possible evaluative changes to improve performance, in advance of construction.

Survey number: HAER MD-118-B

Building/structure dates: 1943-1945 Initial Construction

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concrete buildings wind tunnels silver spring md warfare naval surface warfare center transonic wind tunnel transonic wind tunnel barton clara barton parkway mcarthur mcarthur boulevard silver montgomery county maryland historic american engineering record geoffrey eden melhuish inc r christopher goodwin and associates us department of the navy harriet wise photo ultra high resolution high resolution navy us navy library of congress
date_range

Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Department of the Navy
R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Incorporated, contractor
Melhuish, Geoffrey Eden, project manager
Wise, Harriet, photographer
place

Location

Silver Spring (Md.) ,  38.99067, -77.02609
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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