Alexander Graham Bell and Frederick Walker Baldwin with hydrofoil model, circa 1921

Object summary

Title: Alexander Graham Bell and Frederick Walker Baldwin with hydrofoil model, circa 1921
Object ID: GCP-00001783
Date made: circa 1921
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Alexander Graham Bell and Frederick Walker Baldwin pose with a model of HD-4, an early research hydrofoil watercraft.

Original Caption: "Inventors with speed boat model. 7094 R - Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and F. W. Baldwin with the model of their unique American Speed boat. The boat itself, H.D. 4, equipped with two Liberty motors, has been in water for the past two years. At present it is off Baldeck, Nova Scotia."