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Henry Brown Harris, Daniel Clemens Sayre and Karl Otto Lange pose with a research airplane at an airfield. Original caption: "The flying aerological laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, popularly known among flyers at the Boston Airport as the 'Flying Hothouse,' because of the glass-enclosed section of the cabin to permit visibility on all sides. Note the meteorograph suspended under the wing between struts. The plane makes daily flights to an altitude of 19,000 feet over New England. Left to right: Henry B. Harris, research pilot; Daniel C. Sayre, former pilot, and Dr. K. O. Lange, a member of Technology's aerological research staff and director of the studies being undertaken in the upper atmosphere. #### J. J. Rowlands, M. I. T."