This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
1887-1903
United States of America
EQUIPMENT-Test
Smithsonian Institution
A small, oval-shaped cylinder connected to copper tubing. Please refer to Vol. 27, No. 3, Pl. 12, (vintage 1894) Picture "F" (gasoline burners),"Langley Memoir of Mechanical Flight", p. 57. The object shown in current photographs in TMS "Media" file is the same object in Langley's memoir.
Stored with A19820770000
3-D: 35.2 x 7 x 4.3cm (13 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 11/16 in.)
Storage: 40.3 x 29.2 x 6.7cm (15 7/8 x 11 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.)
Steel; Copper Alloy
A19820775000
Transferred from the Smithsonian Institution to the United States National Museum.
National Air and Space Museum
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