MIT Museum

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The "Boston Arm" is an electronically-operated artificial limb in which the muscle signals generated by the amputee's desire to use the arm are sufficient to move the arm to any position and operate it at a variety of speeds in much the same way a normal person does. The arm was developed by Professor Robert Mann, Uncas A. Whitaker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, MIT, and by Dr. Melvin Glimcher, Harriet M. Peabody Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. [ME_0265]

"Flash welding for the alumni" A student demonstration put on by Prof. R. H. Smith July 1925 [ME_0005]

150 HP Allis-Corliss experimental engine. [ME_0782]

150 HP Allis-Corliss experimental engine. [ME_0796]

1969 Mechanical Engineering awards dinner [ME_0034]

1970's Mechanical Engineering students playing volleyball [ME_0033]

1974 2.70 contest audience [ME_0492.002]

2d & 3d year drafting rooms [ME_0806]

2d & 3d year drafting rooms [ME_0807]

4th year mech. Engineering drawing room [ME_0805]

A blind student using the MIT Braillemboss which linked to a computer transforms English as it is typed into braille, the clusters of raised dots that allow a blind person to read with the tips of his fingers. This system opens new opportunities for the blind. Braille copies of books can be produced easily and blind scientists and engineers can work with computers on par with sighted persons. [ME_0307.001]

A blind TV newscaster at work. News from the national wire service is fed into the Braillemboss, which converts it to braille. The blind newsman can then prepare his own braille script with the Braillemboss. [ME_0318]

A corner of the hydraulic laboratory. [ME_0562]

A corner of the shops, about 1890. [ME_0610]

A graduate student making research tests on a section of tunnel lining. [ME_0384]

A modified hip prosthesis containing an instrumented femoral head to determine the pressure distribution generated between the cartilage surfaces across the human hip joint. [ME_0281]

A photomicrograph of a partially formed chip, showing the manner in which metal abruptly deforms in the cutting operation, made in the machine tool and metal cutting division of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. [ME_0127]

A portion of the Strength of Materials lab. [ME_0639]

A special motion picture camera used in a visual study of the planing operation, in the metal cutting laboratory of the Dpt of mech Engr. [ME_0697]

A steel weir-box. [ME_0563]

A student at work in the gage laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. [ME_0699]

A student at work in the gage laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0700]

A student team celebrating a victory, 1981

A student works on his own device for studying the optimization of a fluid jet amplifier. [ME_0505]

A thermo-electric circuit with chip-tool surfaces as one junction is used by two undergraduates in the Mechanical Engineering Department to determine metal cutting temperatures under various conditions of speed, depth of cutting, and cutting fluids at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0095]

A thermo-electric circuit with chip-tool surfaces as one junction is used by two undergraduates in the Mechanical Engineering Department to determine metal cutting temperatures under various conditions of speed, depth of cutting, and cutting fluids at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0097]

Above-knee prosthesis [ME_0290]

Aerodynamics section of computer. [ME_0364]

air compression test [ME_0746]

Air compressor -- This machine is also known as the three stage air compressor. [ME_0535]

Allis engine [ME_0787]

Allis-Corliss 150 HP Experimental engine [ME_0770]

Alvin K. Grob, G, is seen taking notes at the far right below while working with Peter Lupescu, G, on an investigation of two-dimensional flow by means of birefringement fluids. After adding yellow dye to water, they pass polarized light through the model and observe fringe patterns. [ME_0520]

American Society of Mechanical Engineers medal [ME_0132]

An eddy current friction dynamometer in use in a study of friction at very low sliding speeds in the lubrication laboratory of the MIT Mech Eng Dept. [ME_0698]

An experiment with an internal combustion engine in a special test cell is carried out by two undergraduate students working in the Engineering Projects Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. [ME_0507]

An MIT graduate student at work on his thesis project, designing new electronic components for the analogue computer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0373]

An undergraduate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering Department studies the forces on a cutting tool during the broaching operation. [ME_0102]

Analysis of the grinding process is facilitated by an internal grinder with dynamometer holding the work to be cut. The amplifier and recorder are in the portable cabinet in the lower left. [ME_0024]

Applied mechanics laboratory -- 16,000 lb beam testing machine. [ME_0638]

Applied mechanics laboratory -- Friction brake and parallel rod machine. [ME_0545]

Applied mechanics laboratory 50,000 lb beam test machine. [ME_0652]

Applied mechanics laboratory and Olson Testing Machine on left. [ME_0658]

Applied mechanics laboratory dynamometer. [ME_0537]

Applied mechanics laboratory, room 10. [ME_0561]

Applied mechanics laboratory, rope machine. [ME_0623]

Applied mechanics laboratory. Plate girder joints broken in 50,000 lb beam machine. [ME_0622]

Arch machine and jack levers. [ME_0648]

Arch machine for testing. [ME_0631]

Arch Machine for testing. [ME_0649]

Arch testing machine. (small plate) [ME_0629]

Arnold Epstein studies a Coke bottle with an infrared sensor. [ME_0515]

balcony, steam lab. [ME_0744]

Ball bearing machine [ME_0130]

Beam test. Emery Machine for testing 300,000 lbs. [ME_0681]

Beam test. [ME_0684]

Beam testing machine (50,000 lb) [ME_0641]

Beam testing machine, capacity 100,000, 26 foot span. (1890s?) [ME_0626]

Beam testing machine. Emery patents. Capacity 300,000 lbs. [ME_0657]

Beam testing machine. [ME_0634]

Beam testing machine. [ME_0683]

Beam testing with hard pine. [ME_0679]

Beam testing [ME_0682]

Beam testing, 1890s. [ME_0680]

Belt transmission machine c. 1900. [ME_0540]

Belt transmission machine c. 1900. [ME_0544]

Belts in Department of Chemistry's shop. [ME_0114]

Boilers in the fire house. [ME_0529]

Boston - General -- Instruction Room. [ME_0550]

Boston, Mass (1870-1890) Pattern making, machine shop. [ME_0596]

Boston, Mass (1890s) Dept. of Mech Eng. Pattern Shop (machine shop) [ME_0594]

Boston, mass (1890s) Dept. of Mech Eng., Machine Shop [ME_0612]

Boston, mass (1890s) Dept. of Mech Eng., Machine Shop [ME_0613]

Boston, Mass (1890s) Dept. of Mech. Eng, Carpenter's shop [ME_0595]

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Brick test in strength testing lab [ME_0380]

Buffet table at 1969 Mechanical Engineering awards dinner [ME_0036]

c. 1974-1978 [Hip Join]

c. 1974-1978 [Hip Join]

c. 1974-1978 [Hip Join]

Calorimeter and injector tests. 1890s. [ME_0583]

Calorimeter tanks. Steam Laboratory. [ME_0567]

Carpenter shop: looking south. 1890s [ME_0592]

Cathy Biber in building 3's basement test track. [ME_0093]

Cathy Biber in building 3's basement test track. [ME_0094]

Celebrating MIT's move across the river and moving in new buildings - a copy of the Wright Bros. airplane. Bldg 3 - steam lab. [ME_0773.001]

Cement testing machine. [ME_0647]

centrif. Pump [ME_0768]

centrifugal pump unit. Pump before connections - 22000 galls to 30 ft above [ME_0769]

Chipping & Filing. [ME_0607]

Class at work in Engineering Laboratory. Engineering A. Hot air engine, flow of steam machine & superheated steam. [ME_0779]

Compound locomotive rigged for test by students of MIT. [ME_0549]

Compression and vacuum units; basement hydr. Lab [ME_0753]

Compression machine. [ME_0390]

Cooernors. [ME_0548]

Cool, clear water -- MIT graduate student Morton S. Isaacson of Rochester, New York, adjusts an experimental electrodialysis unit to remove salt from water. Isaacson works with Dr. Ronald Probstein, an MIT professor who contends that water for arid regions of America can be economically produced by desalinizing brackish surface and groundwater. [ME_0404.001]

Corlis engine with friction brake [ME_0788]

Corliss engine and brakes. [ME_0797]

Corliss engine in the steam lab.

Corliss Engine [ME_0742]

Corliss Engine [ME_0747]

Corliss engine, steam lab. [ME_0750]

Corner of applied mech. Showing beam testing mach. and ____. [ME_0624]

Corner of hydraulic laboratory. [ME_0571]

Corner of lab. [ME_0391]

Corner of laboratory showing Olsen testing machine. [ME_0632]

Corner showing machine tools [ME_0709]

Cosy corner for students [ME_0120]

Cotton machine showing carder. [ME_0527]

Cotton machinery spinning frame. [ME_0530]

Cotton machinery spinning frame. [ME_0533]

Cotton spinning laboratory looking south. [ME_0531]

counter display [ME_0131]

Creative technological toys [ME_0270]

Crushed wood specimens. [ME_0633]

deceased, do not use [ME_0458]

Denny + Johnson Torsion meter and calibration apparatus. [ME_0547]

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Design Competition 1987, Robert Newman, '88 [ME_0407]

Determining the coefficient of discharge of a cylindrical mouthpiece -- reduction of pressure at throat indicated by mercury gauge. 1890s. [ME_0582]

Determining the coefficient of discharge of a Venturi Meter. 1890s. [ME_0578]

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Drawing room, Mechanical engineering department. 1893. [ME_0804]

Each student works under the critical and sympathetic eyes of men skilled in the art. [ME_0711]

Efficiency of screw jacks. [ME_0635]

Electrical power unit for the Sparrow I Missile. Developed by Robert W. Mann [ME_0356]

Ely Sachs demonstrating xray developer machine with several prints at a desk. [ME_0032.002]

Ely Sachs demonstrating xray developer machine with two prints held up to a window overlooking MIT campus. [ME_0032.001]

Emery 300,000 # testing machine. [ME_0654]

Emery testing machine. [ME_0655]

Engine from afar [ME_0752]

Engine [ME_0751]

Engineering laboratory -- Students testing a Swain Turbine in the basement. 1890s. [ME_0573]

Engineering laboratory -- view on first floor, looking east. [ME_0546]

Engineering laboratory. Engineering A. [ME_0617]

Engineering Laboratory: 1st floor. General view looking west -- Hot air engine in left foreground [ME_0560]

Engineering laboratory: basement. Students finding the clearance of Kendall Engine. [ME_0778]

Engineers set up certain characteristics of an aircraft for a flight performance check. [ME_0360]

Erection of steel smokestack small building catalogued 1908. [ME_0526]

Erection of steel stack M.E. Dept. View showing how steel stack is hauled to place where it is to be erected. [ME_0007]

Experimental apparatus. Steam lab. [ME_0791]

Experiments taken in Great Court to demonstrate the use of the Pathfinder. A device which can tell a blind person when he is approaching solid objects under the auspices of Prof. Mann and John Dupress. [ME_0301]

Experiments taken in Great Court to demonstrate the use of the Pathfinder. A device which can tell a blind person when he is approaching solid objects under the auspices of Prof. Mann and John Dupress. [ME_0303]

Faculty members, instructors and graduate assistants, and undergraduates work in the 38,000 sq. ft. lab on a variety of experiments. [ME_0504]

Fall over big weir [ME_0748]

Flight Simulator Dynamic Analysis and Control Lab [ME_0354]

Flight table looking down on the Roll Gimbal [ME_0359]

Flight table showing the pitch Gimbal Drive [ME_0358]

Flooring in the steam and hydraulics lab [ME_0743]

Foot of penstock. [ME_0749]

For a better understanding of cutting operations, the forces in the vertical, longitudinal, and transverse directions acting on the piece cut are determined by the dynamometer containing bonded resistance strain gauges whose electrical outputs are recorded. December 1952. [ME_0098]

Forge Laboratory c. 1900. [ME_0597]

Forge shop from South. Forge shop Mechanical lab, garrison St., Boston, Mass, Mech Eng, 1890s. [ME_0591]

Forge Shop, 1890s.

Gas apparatus. View showing explosion. [ME_0651]

Gathering data for a fundamental study of the surface grinding operation, in the machine tool laboratory of the MIT Mech Engr Dept. The workpiece is mounted on a dynamometer that enables the thrust and torque reactions to be accurately measured. [ME_0715]

General view of laboratory. Engineering Building A. [ME_0793]

General view of the control console showing the recorder section. [ME_0362]

General view of the machine tool laboratory in the MIT dept of mech engr. [ME_0714]

General view of the machine tool laboratory on the first floor, from the northwest corner. [ME_0706]

George S. Lechter, a junior in Mechanical Engineering, checks the boom of the heavy construction crane which he redesigned last summer while working in Bogota. [ME_0004]

Georges S. Duval, 3rd, '62 is comparing the power efficiencies of small-diameter founded-entrance nozzles and sharp-edged orifices, with oil as a working fluid. Georges is shown preparing an instrumentation required to measure thrust associated with the nozzles and orifices. [ME_0508]

Graduate student Mike Lichstein demonstrates the travel path sounder, developed at MIT, for an ABC-TV cameraman. [ME_0340]

Harris-Corliss Engine. Steam Laboratory. Engineering A. [ME_0780]

Harris-Corliss engine. Steam laboratory. Engineering Aa. [ME_0785]

Heat treating laboratory at left side of door [ME_0695]

Heavy machinery was required for testing, in this case a section of tunnel lining in 1937. Such testing activities were phased out during the fifties. They were regarded as ones which industry could perform just as well, they took up a great deal of space and they did not make a significant educational contribution. [ME_0701]

Hommatt '75, MIT 1878-9 Rogers building [ME_0812]

Hope. Machine. Applied mechanics laboratory. Engineering A. [ME_0616]

How strong is this tunnel lining? In the Strength of Materials Laboratory, graduate students are testing it to find out. [ME_0377]

hydr. Lab, main floor [ME_0766]

Hydraulic apparatus used in the measurement of the flow of streams. [ME_0559]

Hydraulic Laboratory -- determining shape of jet. 1890s. [ME_0575]

Hydraulic laboratory -- students testing the efficiency of a rotary pump. 1890s. [ME_0586]

Hydraulics lab. [ME_0393]

Hydraulics lab. [ME_0556]

Imaginative drawing by John Arnold, Mech. Eng. Part of "Case of Arcturus IV" [ME_0551]

In this computer of the flight simulator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, engineers "set up" certain characteristics of an aircraft whose flight performance is to be checked by the machine. The computer, developed in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory at MIT, contains electronic elements for adding, multiplying, and integrating, all necessary to solve the complex problems of how an airplane would fly under specified conditions of speed, altitude, and control. [ME_0367]

Injectors. Steam laboratory. [ME_0539]

Inside of femoral head showing the fourteen pressure transducers used to monitor in vivo pressure distributions. The data is transmitted through a multi-channel telemetry device. [ME_0280]

Institute's triple compound corliss [ME_0760]

Interior view of the MIT Department of Civil Engineering.

Interior view of the MIT Department of Civil Engineering.

John T. M. Pryke '62, is shown with a model of a variable-gauge locomotive frame. Pryke investigated how to integrate the several railroad gauges found in the newly emerging African countries into a single system. His frame fits all present locomotives and could be adapted to cars. [ME_0509]

John T. M. Pryke '62, is shown with a model of a variable-gauge locomotive frame. Pryke investigated how to integrate the several railroad gauges found in the newly emerging African countries into a single system. His frame fits all present locomotives and could be adapted to cars. [ME_0510]

Jonathan Morey (right), a graduate student in mechanical engineering operates a simple analogue computer in a mechanical engineering dynamics laboratory. [ME_0077]

Junior Nancy Cook and fiancé Robert Slutz '72, showing vehicle that won the great mousetrap car race. [ME_0500]

Kenneth L. Lebsock, '60 a graduate student is shown using the EPL's general purpose analogue computer to isolate spots in the control systems of a radar-tracking antenna. His master's thesis deals with an azimuthal control system. [ME_0518]

Koyl semaphore & assistant's room. [ME_0555]

Lecture lab -- wood working [ME_0119]

M.E. Dept. heads: Hunsaker, Soderberg, Denhartog, Keenan, Syever, Shapiro, Richardson [JCH 026]

Machine for testing repeated stress in shafting. OID. [ME_0619]

Machine for testing the wear of brake shoes and of tires, c. 1900. [ME_0553]

machine lab [ME_0107]

Machine Shop -- Drills, Milling Machines, Planers, etc. File Shop in the background. [ME_0602]

Machine Shop from the west. [ME_0609]

Machine shop, from turning shop. [ME_0615]

Machine shop. [ME_0614]

Machine tool lab - student at work. [ME_0707]

Machine tool laboratory, general view. [ME_0604]

Materials testing laboratory crane unit. [ME_0392]

Measuring millionth of an inch deflection produced in the steel beam by laying two fingers on it. [ME_0382]

Measuring the dynamic performance of a pneumatic servo control systems in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0369]

Mech Eng cryogenic lab Building 41 [ME_0689]

Mech. Eng. Second year drawing room. [ME_0811]

Mechanical Eng. Welding laboratory - studying characteristics of flame with the Edgerton high-speed technique. [ME_0696]

Mechanical Engineering classroom [ME_0121]

Mechanical Engineering Department about 1925 [ME_0049]

Mechanical Engineering Department heads [JCH_25]

Mechanical Engineering machine shop, 1890s [ME_0606]

Mechanical engineering measurement and instrumentation class [Wom.5.419]

Mechanical Engineering picture taken by Bacharach in 1923 [ME_0051]

Mechanical Engineering Society, c. 1900

Mechanical engineering students at work in a design studio. Prof. Dwight M.B. Baumann is standing behind the student at the drafting table. [ME_0124]

Mechanical engineering students routinely made calculations in the Steam Laboratory, such as pounds of steam per horsepower per hour and thermal efficiency. They also had to spend a night taking readings in the Institute's power plant, and an old-timer recalls that some of them fortified themselves during the ordeal to the point that their calculations would be somewhat confused. [ME_0781]

Mechanical Engineering students, 1876.

Mechanical laboratories, Garrison St, Boston, Mass (1890s?) Forge Shop [ME_0600]

Mechanical laboratories, Garrison St, Carpenters Shop, Boston, Mass, Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1890s? [ME_0593]

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MIT '96, blacksmith shop [ME_0599]

Model of locomotive link motion. [ME_0554]

Moving pictures of the cutting operation help in the analysis of, and are invaluable as a teaching aid in describing, the mechanics of metal cutting. December 1952. [ME_0096]

Newcomen atmospheric engine. [ME_0777.n]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0334]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0335]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0339]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0336]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0337]

Newly developed MIT Cable Cane for blind people is shown extended and folded. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center, the cane can be folded and tucked away when not in use, yet, when extended, retains the same rigidity that makes a conventional cane a rich source of cues for the blind user. [ME_0338]

Office of assistant [ME_0756]

Olsen Machine. [ME_0640]

Olsen testing machine. 100,000 lb in foreground. 50,000 il in background. Engineering laboratory. Engineering A. [ME_0621]

Olsen testing machine. [ME_0645]

Olson and wire testing machines. [ME_0630]

Olson testing machine (50,000 lb) [ME_0627]

Optical and radiation pyrometers [ME_0134]

Orifices, mouthpieces, ad other apparatus used in experiments upon the flow of water. [ME_0767]

Overhead tester. [ME_0387]

Photomemory, Prof. Baumann [ME_0261]

Physics: Hydraulic lab. Instruments for determining the variations in velocity of water flowing through pipes or from nozzles [ME_0558]

Picking up a telephone -- an easy job for most people -- had always been difficult for amputees before the development of "The Boston Arm." The artificial arm is run electronically and activated by muscle signals. By flexing of the muscles, an amputee can move the arm to any vertical position he chooses to operate it at a variety of speeds. [ME_0263]

Pitch drive and resolvers - 3/4 left rear view [ME_0365]

Portion of blacksmith shop [ME_0590]

Pressure reading [ME_0086]

Pressure vessel houses experiment smoldering and transition to flame or extinguish. Grad student Albert Moussa, Soph. Mike Atlas-Seaford NY, using cathometer to observe. [ME_0734.001]

Prof. explains a gadget to students [ME_0066]

Professor Baumann conducts and undergraduate mechanical engineering class in entrepreneurship, in which the students form and manage a fictional company. [ME_0123]

Professor David P. Hoult (right) and graduate student Jeffery C. Well of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory carry out a small-scale test of a plume consisting of dyed ferric chloride solution descending in water from a small pipe which traverses across the tank. When the pipe-exit parameters are correctly scaled, the flow is geometrically similar to the rise of a high-stack plume in a neutrally stable atmosphere. (Turn picture upside down to see the effective similarity.) [ME_0687.001]

Professor Ioannis V. Yannas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exhibits a sample of artificial skin he hopes will prove useful for burn victims. The material, made from carbohydrates and collagen, is being tested by MIT researchers and researchers at Shriners Burn Institute. [IVY_2c]

Pumps. Engineering laboratory. Engineering Building A. 1890s. [ME_0795]

R. Fuess (vorm. J. G. Greiner Jr. & Geissler), Berlin S.W. Instrument used in mining and metallurgy. [ME_0025]

Railroad motors. [ME_0019]

Rat heart (dark blob toward bottom of flask) being chilled in a special freezer developed at MIT. Researchers are trying to freeze live rat hearts in an effort to learn how to preserve human organs for transplants. [ME_0075]

Rawles. Student and professor reacting to a design breaking. [ME_0410]

Recent studies show that two mechanical operations occur simultaneously in drilling metal. The cone shaped chips are cut by the advancing blade of the drill. The long and narrow chips are extruded from the point of the drill. [ME_0103]

Repeated stress machine c. 1900. [ME_0643]

Richard Pickett, Raymond Landis, and Bernard E. Goldhirsh, all '62, run an experimental stress analysis experiment. It involves use of the photoelasticity effect. [ME_0517]

Rickle Machine [ME_0381]

Robert E. Baker, a graduate student, is a member of a team of three men who are studying fluid flow in a rotating co-coordinating system. Their object is to find the relation between the through-flow rate and the angular velocity of surrounding rotating chamber for which the through rate is stable. [ME_0519]

Rope tester. [ME_0628]

Rope testing machine. Engineering laboratory. Engineering A. [ME_0618]

Rope testing machine. ME Dept. [ME_0620]

Rotary pump. Basement of Pierce building [ME_0771]

Samuel C. Collins in the cryogenics lab. [ME_0690]

Scoliosis Correction Device [ME_0271]

Seven MIT Mechanical Engineering Heads gather [ME_0055]

Seymour and McIntosh engine, steam laboratory. Basement of Pierce building [ME_0772]

Sluiceway - basement [ME_0741]

Society of Mechanical Arts. Boston, Mass, 1870s. Dept. of Mining Engineering & Metallurgy. [ME_0601]

Specimens 6x8 yellow pine an 10x12 oak crushed in Emery machine. [ME_0625]

Steam and hydraulics lab [ME_0776.n]

Steam lab 1937 [ME_0774]

Steam lab 1938 [ME_0775]

Steam lab class [ME_0755]

Steam lab. [ME_0792]

Steam pumps in the hydraulic laboratory. [ME_0572]

Steel stack in process of erection. [ME_0528]

Strength testing machine. [ME_0383]

Student holding up his entry for the 1983 design contest.

Students and the audience watch a competition during the design contest, 1981 [ME_0424.002]

Students at work on the 1986 hovercraft project.

Students determining the coefficient of discharge of a hose nozzle -- Pressure recorded on mercury gauge; discharge measured in calibrated tank underneath floor. 1890s. [ME_0584]

Students in the drawing room, 1876.

Students in the drawing room, 1876.

Students in the drawing room, 1876.

Students testing a Pelton Water Motor. 1890s. [ME_0585]

Students watch a demonstration of machine tool operation in the main lecture hall of the Metals Processing Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0060]

Students working in a lab, 1986

Students working in hydraulics lab, 1890s

Students working in steam lab [MEsteamlab]

Studying the characteristics of hydraulic control systems in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory. [ME_0372]

Studying the velocity of a jet with a pilot tube. 1890s. [ME_0574]

Sturdy yet curvaceous is this pump in the Institute's steam laboratory. Centrifugal pump. [ME_0754]

Swift and Williams. Thesis '95 [ME_0569]

Tandem compound high speed engine, 1890s. [ME_0798]

Tandem compound high speed engine. Pierce Laboratory. Pierce Building. [ME_0570]

Terrence D. Chatwin, '63, and William H. Pettus, 3d, '63, are shown in the center below studying dynamic stresses in paper webs to help solve a manufacturer's problems. [ME_0516]

Test cell utilizer for stratified charge engine research on a single cylinder texaco engine. [ME_0732]

Test cells used to investigate combustion and thermodynamics in the wankel engine. [ME_0733]

Tester and rope exhibit. [ME_0389]

Testing a 4-inch Worthington Water Meter. 1890s. [ME_0581]

Testing Allis engine [ME_0783]

Testing water pressure [ME_0757]

Testing water pressure [ME_0759]

Testing water pressure, close up [ME_0758]

The "Boston Arm" is an electronically-operated artificial limb in which the muscle signals generated by the amputee's desire to use the arm are sufficient to move the arm to any position and operate it at a variety of speeds in much the same way a normal person does. The arm was developed by Professor Robert Mann, Uncas A. Whitaker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, MIT, and by Dr. Melvin Glimcher, Harriet M. Peabody Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. [ME_0265]

The "Boston Arm" is an electronically-operated artificial limb in which the muscle signals generated by the amputee's desire to use the arm are sufficient to move the arm to any position and operate it at a variety of speeds in much the same way a normal person does. The arm was developed by Professor Robert Mann, Uncas A. Whitaker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, MIT, and by Dr. Melvin Glimcher, Harriet M. Peabody Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. [ME_0266]

The air-conditioned textile testing lab. [ME_0401]

The audience for the 1987 design competition [ME_0408]

The Boston Arm -- an artificial arm operated electronically -- provides amputees with a capability of "near normalicy" of motion. Developed jointly by Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the arm will allow amputees to do a variety of jobs which were never possible to do smoothly before. [ME_0264]

The cotton process laboratory in 1918. [ME_0399]

The Engineering Projects Laboratory combined four previously unrelated labs into a single interdisciplinary unit. [ME_0511]

The extensive facilities of the Steam Laboratory in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering are used by many students at MIT, including those in the department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. [ME_0738]

The extensive facilities of the Steam Laboratory in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering are used by many students at MIT, including those in the department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. [ME_0739]

The extensive facilities of the Steam Laboratory in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering are used by many students at MIT, including those in the department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. [ME_0740]

The first steam engine was at the heart of mechanical engineering study, 1870. [ME_0784]

The first year mechanical drawing room - Boston [ME_0808]

The flight simulator at the Institute is operated from the control panel at which Albert C. Hall, '37, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory, stands. The gimbal frame responds to the various commands given from this board to the theoretical aircraft whose characteristics have been given to the machine. [ME_0361]

The flight table of the flight simulator in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory at MIT is shown here from the control panel of the analogue computer of which it is a part. The gimbal frame in the background responds to the various commands given from this board to the theoretical aircraft whose characteristics have been given to the machine. [ME_0363]

The forces involved in surface grinding are studied with an electric dynometer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0100]

The heart of the flight simulator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is this gimbal flight table which moves I the same way as would the aircraft whose flight performance is being checked by the machine. Here Ralph E. Kimball, executive officer of the MIT Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory is adjusting the flight table control mechanisms. Above his head is a radar antenna which is part of the automatic control equipment for the heoretical aircraft being studied. [ME_0357]

The most distinctive and greatest American contribution to technology has been mass production and the concept that benefits of technological progress should be passed along in the form of higher incomes and lower prices. [ME_0735]

The textile testing laboratory in 1928. [ME_0395]

The textile testing laboratory. [ME_0396]

The textile testing laboratory. [ME_0397]

The three-axis flight table viewed from the control panel of the analogue computer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This flight table provides a means of testing aircraft control systems subjected to motions similar to those which the systems will encounter in actual operation within planes or missiles. [ME_0368]

The universal textile testing machine developed in MIT laboratories. [ME_0400]

These function generators make possible accurate studies of unusual problems on the analogue computer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0370]

These function generators make possible accurate studies of unusual problems on the analogue computer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0371]

Thesis apparatus, engineering laboratory. [ME_0542]

This is a portion of the Samuel Slater Textile Research Laboratory now. The high-capacity impact tester is caged for safety. Student in foreground at right is studying the interaction between a machine and textile, using symbols. [ME_0398]

This metal drilling is part of a research project on the fundamentals of machining now under way in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0099]

Three students lean over a robot for the Intro to Design course, 1988

Three-foot American Impulse Wheel. [ME_0637]

Time test on beams. [ME_0650]

Torsion machine (50,000 lb) [ME_0644]

Torsion machine. [ME_0656]

Torsional shaft testing machine, 1890s? [ME_0653]

Triple expansion engine [ME_0786]

Two engineers mount a gyroscope for test on the flight table of the analogue computer (flight simulator) in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This three-axis flight table, which simulates the movement of theoretical aircraft in flight, is one of the distinctive features of the computer, designed and built at MIT. [ME_0366]

Two students in the hydraulic lab, 1890s

Two students in the hydraulic lab, 1890s

Unidentified instruments [ME_0026]

Unidentified men in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department.

V Type engine [ME_0129]

Victorious student crowd surfing the audience at the design contest, 1983

View on upper floor of hydraulic lab. [ME_0557]

Vise shop. [ME_0608]

William Hastings, '62, is studying basic characteristics of a proportional pneumatic amplifier with no moving mechanical parts. A pair of low-energy level control jets, perpendicular to a two-dimensional high-energy level jet, is used to control the deflection of the main jet. [ME_0514]

Wood turning and pattern making - machine shop [ME_0588]

Workshop for Manuf. Of Spec. Apparatus [ME_0611]

Worn around the neck the Pathsounder is a mobility aid to assist the blind traveler to detect obstacles which his cane cannot reach. The obstacles cause a sound the blind person hears. The Pathsounder was developed at the MIT Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center. [ME_0299]

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