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Title
Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing a 54-ton machine, part of the "U.S. Air Force's long range plans to obtain advanced weapons systems economically", ca.1950
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing a 54-ton machine, part of the "U.S. Air Force's long range plans to obtain advanced weapons systems economically", ca.1950. A man in a lab coat stands with his back turned atop a metal platform, with his left hand busy with what appears to be the control box of a large piece of machinery. The machine appears at right, and bears the words "Kearney & Trecker Milwaukee".
Photoprint reads: "The Machine ... This 54-ton giant, massive in appearance and construction, is controlled by a thin, one-inch wide tape as it performs intricate and close tolerance cuts on complex production parts. The new tool system is parat of the U.S. Air Force's long rance plans to obtainadvanced weapons systems economically. It manufacutres high precision parts in the one continuous operation which formerly require many set-ups and costly templates. Several mechanical innovations are incorporated in the new machine, manufactured by the Kearney and Trecker Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From: Public Relations. Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Hawthorne, California".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10975
USC-2-1-1-11126 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40596
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10975
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40596.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Aircraft industry
Guided missile industries
Industry--Aeronautics--General
Northrop Corporation
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
California
Hawthorne
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40596 [Accession number]
CHS-40596 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 124726 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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