Karl Taylor Compton at Ordnance Gage Laboratory tour demonstration, 1951

Object summary

Title: Karl Taylor Compton at Ordnance Gage Laboratory tour demonstration, 1951
Object ID: GCP-00000563
Date made: 1951-04
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Ordnance Gage Laboratory
Maker: U.S. Army
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian others inspect a optical comparator displayed by Joshua A. Finkel and John Simon Pfeil. Original Credit Line: U.S. Army.

Original Caption: "Optical comparator being demonstrated by Col John S. Pfeil, District Chief, Boston Ordnance District, to, left to right, Dr. K. T. Compton, Chairman of the Corporation, and Dr. J. R. Killian, President of M.I.T., with Lt Col Joshua A Finkel, Deputy District Chief, looking on during a recent inspection tour of the Ordnance Gage Laboratory at M.I.T."