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This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Date 1887-1903 Country of Origin United States of America Type EQUIPMENT-Test Manufacturer Smithsonian Institution
 Physical Description Two small, (slightly crushed) cylinders with bent/circular tubing. Cylinders have small rivets for fastening into one piece. Copper tubing ends between the two cylinders to a round ball-like object. Please refer to Vol. 27, No. 3, Pl. 12. ,"Langley Memoir of Mechanical Flight", P. 57 for gasoline burners, 1895, Picture "H" for model type. The picture in Langley's memoirs closely resembles the accessioned object in the current TMS Media file and MAY be the same ojbect. More research is needed here. Stored with A19820779000 Dimensions 3-D (Overall): 14.6 × 11.4 × 4.4cm (5 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
 Materials Ferrous Alloy
Copper Alloy
 Inventory Number A19820768000 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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