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Object Details
Date 1887-1903 Country of Origin United States of America Type EQUIPMENT-Test Manufacturer Smithsonian Institution
 Physical Description Small Horizontal-shaped cylinder with an attached copper tube. It resembles the vintage 1896 burner with the distinct squared openings. This would have been part of a more complete "Gasoline Burner" assembly with central copper tubing (boiler) components. Please refer to Vol. 27, No. 3, Pl. 12, Picture "M","Langley Memoir of Mechanical Flight", p. 57. However the burner also resembles those utilized on the vintage 1893 Alchohol Aeolipilie, Picture "B". Stored with A19820771000 Dimensions 3-D: 15.4 x 5.1 x 2.5cm (6 1/16 x 2 x 1 in.)
Storage: 28.6 x 20.6 x 7cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
 Materials Copper Alloy
Ferrous Alloy
 Inventory Number A19820774000 Credit Line Transferred from the Smithsonian Institution to the United States National Museum. Data Source National Air and Space Museum Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply
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