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Title: Northrop builds high altitude test chamber
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated February 8, 1954 reads, "Northrop test laboratory technicians test company's new altitude chamber at Hawthorne plant. Chamber can make high speed "climbs" to 130,000 feet - nearly 25 miles - at a beginning rate of six miles per minute. Refrigeration system allows for extreme high and low temperatures ranges running from minus 130 degrees to plus 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Controls and recorders are on panel at left."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00115365
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f1_i19
CARL0005313006
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49235
Subject: Northrop Aircraft, Inc
Northrop Aircraft, Inc.--Employees
Aviation mechanics (Persons)--California--Hawthorne
Industrial technicians--California--Hawthorne
Testing laboratories--California--Hawthorne
Aircraft industry--California--Hawthorne
Men--California--Hawthorne
Hawthorne (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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