Wind tunnel groundbreaking ceremony, 1947

Object summary

Title: Wind tunnel groundbreaking ceremony, 1947
Object ID: GCP-00000266
Date made: 1947-06-14
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Group photograph of Karl Taylor Compton and others, some in military uniform. Text on recto reads "Start of MIT Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Spring 1947". James Rhyne Killian, Jr. stands in back row, second from right. Stamp on verso reads "M.I.T. Historical Collections, received from Mrs. K.T. Compton, date Nov. 1975".