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Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 14-Inch Mill Engines No. 1 & No. 2, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 14-Inch Mill Engines No. 1 & N...

Survey number: HAER PA-49-B Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing machines, Washington and Smith hand presses, self-inking machines, steam engines, cast steel saws, machinery, &c. &c. &c ... New York. Geo. W. Wood. printer. [c. 1846].

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing mac...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 120, Folder 2b.

Grand Celebration of the Cincinnati Steam Fire Dept. in honor of the opening of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. Trial of all the steam engines of Cincinnati on the occasion of the opening of the ...Railroad

Grand Celebration of the Cincinnati Steam Fire Dept. in honor of the o...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1857 June 6, p. 8 & 9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4428. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Firefighting...; St... More

Navy's new 'mystery' plane. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. The U.S. Navy's giant amphibian patrol ship which has arrived in the Capital from Florida. The huge plane was built secretly by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at San Diego, Calif. Of the high-wing type, the amphibian has a spread of 104 feet and is 65 feet long. Its amphibian floats fold into the wings. Twin wasp engines, built into the wing, provide the power

Navy's new 'mystery' plane. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. The U.S. Navy's...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks being turned out in Detroit at the Chrysler tank arsenal, are powered by nine cylinder, 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation type engines. This is a general view of the final engine assembly department

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. An armorer's assistant in a large Western aircraft plant works on the installation of one of the machine guns in the nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. This nose section will later be "mated" to a center section and the plane body will travel down a main assembly line where wings, engines, and other essential equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. An armorer's assistant in a l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of knight armor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Drilling holes in rear crank cases of single row Pratt and Whitney engines. The Natco machines on which the work is done assure precision in this close-tolerance operation. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Drilling holes in rear...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing in a Midwest plant. After the tests have been run, the engines will be torn down and all parts minutely inspected. After reassembly and another series of tests, the engines will be shipped to airplane factories. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. This line of warplane engines at the Long Beach, California, Douglas Aircraft Company, represents enough horsepower to drive an ocean liner. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. This line of warplane engine...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reuse in testing airplane motors, Mighnon Gunn operates this small testing machine with speed and precision although she was new to the job two months ago. A former domestic worker, this young woman is now a willing and efficient war worker, one of many women who are relieving labor shortages in war industries throughout the country. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reus...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Motor Car Company. Checking various dimensions and threads on cylinder hold-down nuts

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Inspection prior to installation of the reduction gear housing

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Motor Car Company. Checking valve springs with an Arbor press for tension

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH

Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Young...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER OH-33

Destruction of Water Ta[nk]s & Engines & engine houses for pumping water into them at Jarrets Station

Destruction of Water Ta[nk]s & Engines & engine houses for pumping wat...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing machines, Washington and Smith hand presses, self-inking machines, steam engines, cast steel saws, machinery, &c. &c. &c ... New York. Geo. W. Wood. printer. [c. 1846].

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing mac...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 120, Folder 2b.

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing machines, Washington and Smith hand presses, self-inking machines, steam engines, cast steel saws, machinery, &c. &c. &c ... New York. Geo. W. Wood. printer. [c. 1846].

R. Hoe. & co. manufacturers of single and double cylinder printing mac...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 120, Folder 2b.

Scrap heap at Alexandria, composed of remains of cars and engines destroyed at Bristoe and Manassas during Pope's campaigns in the fall of 1862

Scrap heap at Alexandria, composed of remains of cars and engines dest...

Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Blooming Mill & Blooming Mill Engines, North of Poland Avenue, Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH

Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Blooming Mill & Bloom...

Significance: The Republic Iron and Steel Company installed a United-Tod twin-tandem compound steam engine and a Mesta-Corliss cross-compound steam engine in its blooming mill building at its Youngstown Works t... More

German fire engines, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

German fire engines, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Public domain photograph of historic place, city, car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Government expert listens to broadcasts of automobile [...] The Automotive Section of the Bureau of Standards is studying the anti-knock proportion of fuel used in automobile and aircraft engines and the scientist in this photograph is "listening in" to the signals of an engine instead of listening to a radio broadcasting station. Eventually, these studies may evolve a new engine, one that will use fuel more economically and efficiently

Government expert listens to broadcasts of automobile [...] The Automo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train with two helper engines climbing the steep grade of Cajon Pass (westbound), Cajon, Calif.

Freight train with two helper engines climbing the steep grade of Cajo...

Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze air craft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter inch to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Left, oil relief valve cap; right, cap nut

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. There's plenty of traffic on the runways of a bombardment squadron base. A plane taxis in after landing at Langley Field, Virginia. In the foreground is a giant YB-17 bomber with the transparent gunner's port and two of the four powerful engines showing

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. There's plenty of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a Midwest plant. After tests are completed, the engine will be torn down for minute inspection of all parts. It will then be reassembled and again tested before shipment to an airplane factory. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Jeep engines. Manifolds for jeep engines ready to go down the assembly line of a Midwest plant. They'll do their part in helping the tough little cars go places. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Jeep engines. Manifolds for jeep engines ready to go down ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes place in one of the Midwest's largest airplane plants. These engines will see duty over Berlin, Tokyo and other points of vital interest to the United Nations

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder barrels for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors must undergo rigid inspection before being installed in the engines. The large plant producing motors is making an important contribution to our growing air power by keeping a steady stream of superior American engines flowing to the big aircraft plants. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder barrels for P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cylinder barrels for airplane engines makes a formidable display. Engines for America's Victory bombers are manufactured in this enormous Midwest plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cy...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Lowering one of the four engines of a mighty consolidated transport plane at a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24, which is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Lowering one of the four...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Checking threads with an amplifier

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Low pressure cylinder for 3-cyl. comp. eng.

Low pressure cylinder for 3-cyl. comp. eng.

Title from negative D4-22323. Probably for a ship engine. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022322. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, 19th century industry, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revol...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Motor block ready for assembly - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Motor block ready for assembly - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Title from jacket. Possibly made for Ford Motor Company automobile industry; cf. negatives D420-2851 to D420-2882 and D420-3041 to D420-3084. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 28907, K 2854. Gift; State Historical So... More

Production. Diesel engines. An electrical generator is coupled to a diesel engine being made for the Navy at a Midwest manufacturing plant

Production. Diesel engines. An electrical generator is coupled to a di...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes place in one of the Midwest's largest airplane plants. These engines will see duty over Berlin, Tokyo and other points of vital interest to the United Nations

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes ...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Installing one of the four engines of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber on one of the assembly lines of Ford's big Willow Run plant. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Installing one of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine boilers, turbine engines and other equipment, now ready for removal from the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. Much of the old metal from heavy dredgers and from Eagle boats of the last war will go to sea again in our new merchant ships and fighting craft. Standard Dredging Corporation

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap,...

Public domain photograph of World War One military equipment, vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitney airplane motor ready for shipment to an aircraft factory is enclosed by a protective pliofilm jacket before the upper portion of the shipping case is put in place. This is only one of many safeguards that are thrown around the engine and each of its parts during every manufacturing and handling operation. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Tucci Hot Rods group from Marcy, New York, which builds classic American cars with large engines modified for linear speed, brought this extraordinary Cadillac automobile to the Syracuse Nationals, the largest car show in the U.S. Northeast, held annually at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes, outside Syracuse. The group posted a sale price of $140,000 for this hand-crafted automobile that sports a supercharged engine

The Tucci Hot Rods group from Marcy, New York, which builds classic Am...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

[Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fell on hose, hose wetting man, fireman putting out flames]

[Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fe...

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as vignettes in: "The Old Niagara. A Ballad," by Arthur Guiterman, Scribner's ma... More

Destruction of Water Ta[nk]s & Engines & engine houses for pumping water into them at Jarrets Station

Destruction of Water Ta[nk]s & Engines & engine houses for pumping wat...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Low pressure cylinder for 3-cyl. comp. eng

Low pressure cylinder for 3-cyl. comp. eng

Probably for a ship engine. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022323. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The old and the new engines (front view)

The old and the new engines (front view)

Photograph shows front view of two locomotives. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOATS, EXHIBITED AT S.O.B. SEN. BEN TILLMAN CLIMBING INTO PLANE; AUGUSTUS POST AT RIGHT

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOA...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroele...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Two of the four mighty engines of a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber loom up against a background of completed planes as another warship of the air awaits it flight tests at Boeing's Seattle plant. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Two of the four mighty engines of a new...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Aircraft engines. Foreman F.I. Bowman shows Marietta Morgan how to operate this bomb-test machine used to test reconditioned spark plugs. A young Negro girl, Marietta, had formerly been a clerk in a meat market. Her lack of industrial experience, however, has been no handicap for her present war job in a large Midwest airplane plant. She's rapidly becoming a skilled and efficient machine operator. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Foreman F.I. Bowman shows Marietta Morga...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshafts for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors undergo careful polishing before assembly in a large Eastern plant supplying our armed forces with the engines that will help us to win this war. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshafts for Pratt ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Bernardino, California. Engines being serviced at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse

San Bernardino, California. Engines being serviced at the Atchison, To...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Requisitioning tools from the tool crib

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

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Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Checking out at the end of the day

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

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Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Motor Car Company. Foreman explaining method of checking studs to an inspector

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

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Chicago, Illinois. One of the Pennsylvania railroad's giant 6100 class engines about to pull out on the "Manhattan Limited" run at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. One of the Pennsylvania railroad's giant 6100 class...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war workers attach cylinder barrels to one of the "green" engines in a huge Midwest aircraft plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war work...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

The royal Arcanum, one of the great engines of civilization and progress. Address by Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, United States senator from Massachusetts. At the great royal Arcanum meeting in Music Hall, Boston, Mass., October 3, 1894. Boston, Mass

The royal Arcanum, one of the great engines of civilization and progre...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 78, Folder 20.

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

[Marine engines made by Detroit Shipbuilding Co., a triple expansion]

[Marine engines made by Detroit Shipbuilding Co., a triple expansion]

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Turbines, Lake Superior Power Co. Plant, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich

Turbines, Lake Superior Power Co. Plant, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich

Attribution to Jackson based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014735. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, F...

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Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, North American, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 b...

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Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroele...

12002-36. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Freshly-painted cylinders for aircraft engines on the floor of the plant in east Hartford, Connecticut

Freshly-painted cylinders for aircraft engines on the floor of the pla...

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Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Engine is shown at Halethorpe, Maryland, about eight miles from Baltimore, pulling a freight train

Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimor...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Marine engines. Camshafts for marine engines for the Navy are produced in great quantity at a Midwest plant. The finest of material and workmanship go into their manufacture. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Marine engines. Camshafts for marine engines for the Navy ...

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