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Spirit of America Racecar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A jet-powered racecar. It has an elongated aerodynamic fuselage, which is supported by one large wheel in the front and two in back. The internal structure consists of welded tubular white metal welded onto a lightweight framework. The racecar is constructed with a welded full-truss chrome steel framework and aluminum skin panels. Its tailfin rises to ten feet, seven inches ...
Model of Newcomen's Atmospheric Steam Engine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a model of Newcomen’s Atmospheric Steam Engine. Newcomen’s steam engine consisted of a metal boiler with a cylinder mounted above. Inside the cylinder is a piston, sealed as closely as possible to the wall with a leather flap. The piston is attached to one end of a large wooden beam. The other end of the beam is attached to the water pump.
Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 'Mississippi' is a relatively small locomotive, even for its day. The locomotive's smokestack is twelve feet high, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet long. Behind the locomotive's engine is a flatcar that is seven feet wide and eight feet long. This flat car carried the locomotive's firewood and water. Both the locomotive and flatcar are painted black with white trim. Th...
John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)two postcards from Woonsocket Rhode Island, advertising a shoemaker. The maps are by Rand McNally illustrating the entire fairgrounds, and by David Bradley (farm equipment producer) of Chicago. There is a commercial flier promoting good health with 'Aerated Waters' from the William Corry and Company of Belfast, Ireland and a wallet-sized calendar for the year of 1893 by The ...
Tournaphone
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Radiosou
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Marconi
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Concord Coach
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A nine passenger, Eastern-style Concord road coach. Originally the coach’s body was painted red and its carriage yellow, but the coach has been over painted with the exception of the door scenes. Its original center "jump seat" is missing, (a "jump seat" is an adjustable seat that, when it is not in use, can be hidden from view.) The two slat type seats on top of coach were ...
Palestine Soup
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Chicago, Illinois'
Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Mark 1A Spitfire is a World War II fighter plane. It has a single seat, multiple guns, and a variety of other armaments. The length of the fuselage is approximately sixteen feet and the wingspan is approximately thirty-six feet. The aircraft's fuselage and wings are painted dark green and ocean gray and its underbelly and under-wings are painted medium sea gray. Targets ...
Telegraph Line
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A twelve-inch length of wire with two sections of glass tubing used as insulation. The glass tubes are sealed at the joints with wax.
Pioneer Zephyr
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A streamlined stainless steel high-speed motor three-car train, powered by a 600 horsepower diesel engine. The train is 197 feet long. It weighs ninety-eight tons.
Orient Motor Buckboard
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A flat board automobile with an air-cooled engine in the rear, a tiller for steering, curved wooden cycle fenders, and four wooden wheels with wire spokes.
The Travel Air Model R 'Mystery Ship' Texaco No. 13 monoplane
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A monoplane, which set hundreds of cross country flight records in the 1930s. The pilot was Frank Hawks. It competed in the 1930 Chicago National Air Races. 'Texaco 13' was originally purchased by the Texaco Company. It had a cockpit full of special instruments for long distance flights and was thus heaviers than its predecesors. The cockpit was fully enclosed. The mon...
Harley-Davidson Sport Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Harley-Davidson 1919 Sport Model is a one-passenger motorcycle with a storage rack behind the seat. The gasoline tank is positioned between the chrome handlebars and seat. The cycle’s engine is two-cylinder and its rubber tires are chain driven. The Sport Model is painted flat army green. The rider’s seat is black.
Boeing 727 Jetliner
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)at full capacity with crew, passengers, and cargo, it weighs 160,000 pounds. The airplane has three rear-mounted engines. This Boeing 727-100 has had its left wing and left rear stabilizer removed so it could be suspended from the balcony as a permanent part of the Museum of Science and Industry's 'Transportation Zone.'
Magdeburg Hemispheres
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The two brass Magdeburg Hemispheres are twelve feet in diameter.
Cable Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cable car is fifteen feet tall, eight feet wide, and twenty feet long. There are six two-person seats on each side. Its wooden seats are similar to bench seats found in a church. The cable car is made of wood-top and bottom with open sides. A hanging kerosene lamp is used to light the interior. There are also running boards twelve feet long on both sides. The cable car i...
Milburn Electric Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and blue two-passenger, two-door electric car. The car has a tiller for steering, two headlights, one taillight, and four rubber tires.
Royal Page Davidson Armored Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Royal Page Davidson Armored car weighs 1,100 pounds. Its steam boiler is in the front and is connected to a six horsepower Duryea three-cylinder steam engine. On the vehicle's front frame is mounted a .223 caliber Colt automatic rapid-fire gun. A detachable bulletproof shield with a vertical opening surrounds the gun. There are three thirty-six inch wheels: one in the fr...
Octave Chanute Glider Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Octave Chanute Glider model is a one-quarter the scale prototype of a full sized glider. Its dimensions are: the height is eight inches high, thirty-six inches wide, forty-eight inches long. The glider is made of wood, twine, oiled cotton cloth, and wire. It has three main wings stacked vertically and a cruciform rudder. The wing and support structures are constructed of...
X-Ray Vacuum Tube
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A long glass tube with a large spherical center. At one end of the tube is an anode and at the other end is a cathode.
Invention of Lee Deforest
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Cyclotron
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cyclotron, developed by Ernest Lawrence. A cyclotron is an accelerator of subatomic particles. Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in 1939. During World War II Lawrence and others of his machines took part in the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs.
Wooden Water Pipe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This water pipe is two sections of hollowed-out wooden logs connected by a smaller wooden tube that bisects the center of each log. The dimensions of the two large wooden logs are ten inches in diameter. The smaller connecting tube is five inches in diameter.
Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A metal cylinder, approximately thirty-six inches tall and twenty-four inches in diameter with two internal horizontal plates and several openings used for lighting and viewing inside the cylinder.
1914 Model T Ford
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black, four-passenger, three-door car, with a black leather top, a two-piece folding windshield, and four black leather seats. On the exterior are two running boards, two headlights, one rear lantern-shaped taillight, four tires, and a hand crank for the engine.
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
Amet Magniscope
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Thirty-five millimeter film projector made of tin, galvanized metal and brass. It has two film reels and sits on a wood base.
Galvani's Apparatus
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a replica of Luigi Galvani’s 1780 apparatus. It includes a frictional electrostatic machine, insulating stand, a Leyden jar (a glass bottle coated inside with tinfoil and having a brass rod connected to a knob passing through a cork) and frog legs.
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
Boeing 40B-2 Air Mail Plane
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A single-engine biplane. The fuselage is painted green and gray and its wings are red and gray. Wing construction consists of solid spruce wooden poles routed out for lightness, spruce ribs and a plywood leading edge. The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered with fabric. Fuel is carried in two forty and sixty-gallon tanks. The mail compartment is right behind the en...
National Semi-Racing Roadster
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 1913 National Semi-Racing Roadster is a two-passenger automobile. Its engine and hand crank are in the front. There are two large, tube-shaped gasoline tanks behind driver's seat. Behind the gas tanks is a storage shelf for two spare tires and luggage. The roadster has four rubber tires with wooden spokes. The National has three large headlights and a brake light. The dr...
Sears Motor Buggy, Model P
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Motor Buggy Model 'P' automobile seats four passengers. It has carriage wheels and a tiller for steering. The spring wagon body is made of pressed steel. The two-cylinder engine is located under the middle of the buggy. For cover it has a fringed surrey top. The automobile is painted black, and dark blue with white trim.
U-505 Submarine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The U-505 is 252 feet long, thirty-seven feet high at the conning tower and twenty-two feet wide at its widest point. Its maximum speed was 18.3 knots on the surface and 7.3 knots submerged. The submarine had a range of 11,400 miles without refueling and could stay submerged for approximately thirty-two hours. It could carry twenty-two torpedoes. The submarine was designed t...
Foucault's Pendulum
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the apparent movement of plane of swing is ten degrees per hour.
Duesenberg Roadster J-200
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A 1929 Duesenberg Roadster J-200 convertible two door, two-passenger automobile. The auto body is black with stainless steel trim and bumpers. The convertible top and four spoked tires are tan. There are two spare tires, one on each side on the running board. The interior is black with a stainless steel dashboard.
Bernardi Automobile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bernardi is a two-passenger automobile painted black with red trim. It has three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The small steering wheel is on the right side next to the brake handle. It has a brown upholstered buggy bench. The engine is located in a box underneath the bench.
Benz Velo Automobile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Benz Velo is a motorized two-passenger buggy. Its engine is situated in a box behind the seats. The auto has four wheels with spokes, the back two are 35.5 and the front two are twenty-three inches. The car is painted burgundy with gold trim.
Water Vapor Turbine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This water vapor turbine has two sets of horizontal spiral glass tubes connected by three straight vertical tubes and two glass globes. The small turbine is located in the top globe.

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