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- The Blue Flame, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1970
- Date
- 1970
- Description
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Transparency depicting the car known as the Blue Flame that set the land speed record on October 23, 1970 at Bonneville Flats, Utah. Powered...
Show moreTransparency depicting the car known as the Blue Flame that set the land speed record on October 23, 1970 at Bonneville Flats, Utah. Powered by ignited liquefied natural gas, the car was conceived by Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute colleagues Dick Keller and Ray Dausman and constructed by Reaction Dynamics, Inc. in Milwaukee. Henry R. Linden, then President of the Institute of Gas Technology, obtained the funding for the project and assembled a team of Illinois Tech engineering students and faculty members T. Paul Torda and Sarunas C. Uzgiris to improve the aerodynamics of the car. In October, 1970, with Gary Gabelich driving, The Blue Flame set a land speed record of 1,014 km/h, a record that stood for 27 years. Original photographer unknown.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Bernard "Sonny" Weissman and Arthur Keating Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1974
- Date
- 1974
- Description
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Photograph of Bernard "Sonny" Weissman in front of Arthur Keating Hall. Weissman was a coach at Armour Institute of Technology beginning in...
Show morePhotograph of Bernard "Sonny" Weissman in front of Arthur Keating Hall. Weissman was a coach at Armour Institute of Technology beginning in 1928 and Director of Athletics at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago from 1928-1971. Photographer unknown.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- President Henry T. Heald at microphone addressing V-12 unit, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1943
- Date
- 1943
- Description
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Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Henry Heald with uniformed students from the V-12 Navy College Training Program. The...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Henry Heald with uniformed students from the V-12 Navy College Training Program. The V-12 program (1943-1946) offered men who were interested in Navy careers the alternative of attending a civilian college or university with the rank of apprentice seamen and then to become eligible for an officer's commission upon graduation. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Gas Sphere, Green Bay, Wisconsin, ca. 1940s
- Date
- 1940-1949
- Description
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Photograph of a spherical gasoline storage tank in Green Bay, Wisconsin, possibly constructed for or used by the Institute of Gas Technology...
Show morePhotograph of a spherical gasoline storage tank in Green Bay, Wisconsin, possibly constructed for or used by the Institute of Gas Technology or one of its member institutions. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- IIT 1956-1957
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1956-1957
- Description
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Black-and-white, silent film identified as "IIT 1956-1957" with images of Illinois Institute of Technology campus and buildings, classroom...
Show moreBlack-and-white, silent film identified as "IIT 1956-1957" with images of Illinois Institute of Technology campus and buildings, classroom scenes, and students working in laboratories. Extended sequences feature architecture and Institute of Design students with models of their work and students dining in the Commons Building. Original format is 16mm film. Exact date of filming is unknown, but some evidence indicates at least smoe of the film was shot in spring, 1957.
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- IIT 1956-1957 film, 1956-1957
- Title
- CBS News interviews Ralph Peck in lab, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1975
- Description
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Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty member Ralph Peck being interviewed by a local CBS affiliate in a laboratory. Peck is...
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology faculty member Ralph Peck being interviewed by a local CBS affiliate in a laboratory. Peck is standing in front of a board illustrating the Pircon-Peck process, which is a process developed with Ladislav Pircon for creating fertilizer or desulfuizing flue gas.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Tree planting on campus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980s
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is...
Show morePhotograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Tree planting on campus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980s
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is...
Show morePhotograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- IIT logo with model of Chicago, Illinois, 1980s
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of the block IIT logo on a model of Navy Pier and the surrounding area of Chicago. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is...
Show morePhotograph of the block IIT logo on a model of Navy Pier and the surrounding area of Chicago. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Lois Graham with students, ca. 1980-1985
- Creator
- Lightfoot, Robert M., III
- Date
- 1980-1985
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Binaural research experiment, Parmly Foundation for Auditory Research, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1946-1960
- Date
- 1946-1960
- Description
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Photograph of an Illinois Tech student in an anechoic chamber at the Parmly Sound Laboratory. From press release attached to photograph: ...
Show morePhotograph of an Illinois Tech student in an anechoic chamber at the Parmly Sound Laboratory. From press release attached to photograph: "Illinois Tech student, Jack Kiser, takes part in binaural hearing experiment at the Parmly Foundation for Auditory Research. Kiser is listening to two different tones in the completely silent (anechoic) chamber in order to determine their direction. Physicists at the Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Tech also use the Parmly chamber for acoustical research." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Assistant to Dr. Daniel Graupe demonstrating a computerized arm prothesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1980s
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of an unknown assistant to Dr. Daniel Graupe demonstrating a computerized prosthetic arm. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph...
Show morePhotograph of an unknown assistant to Dr. Daniel Graupe demonstrating a computerized prosthetic arm. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Dr. Daniel Graupe and an assistant using a computerized arm prothesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1980s
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of Electrical Engineering professor Dr. Daniel Graupe and an assistant demonstrating a computerized prosthetic arm. Photographer...
Show morePhotograph of Electrical Engineering professor Dr. Daniel Graupe and an assistant demonstrating a computerized prosthetic arm. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Josephine Mehlberg, ca. 1960
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1960-1969
- Description
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Photograph of Professor Josephine Mehlberg teaching a mathematics class. Photographer was possibly Dan Ryan. Date of photograph is unknown....
Show morePhotograph of Professor Josephine Mehlberg teaching a mathematics class. Photographer was possibly Dan Ryan. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Dan Ryan collection, 1954-1980
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- Filming The American Scene, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1958-1963
- Date
- 1958-1963
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Sidney Guralnick, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1970s
- Date
- 1970-1979
- Description
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Photograph of Sidney Guralnick at a window in Perlstein Hall, looking south towards S.R. Crown Hall and IITRI Tower. Sidney A. Guralnick was...
Show morePhotograph of Sidney Guralnick at a window in Perlstein Hall, looking south towards S.R. Crown Hall and IITRI Tower. Sidney A. Guralnick was Dean of the Graduate School at Illinois Institute of Technology, and later the university's first Provost, appointed by President Thomas L. Martin, Jr. in 1975. Since 1982, he has served as Perlstein Distinguished Professor (now Emeritus) in the department of Civil & Architectural Engineering. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Dr. Paul Torda, ca. 1960s
- Date
- 1960-1969
- Description
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Photograph of Dr. T. Pail Torda. Dr. Torda was Director of Armour Research Foundation's fluid dynamics and propulsion research division from...
Show morePhotograph of Dr. T. Pail Torda. Dr. Torda was Director of Armour Research Foundation's fluid dynamics and propulsion research division from 1959 until 1962. He joined the Illinois Tech faculty in 1962 as a professor of mechanical engineering, at which time he remained an ARF consultant. Torda helped to design the Blue Flame, which held the land speed record from 1972 to 1980, and was integral in the development of an Experimental Engineering degree program at IIT. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Food Engineering equipment, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960s
- Creator
- Fisher, Vories
- Date
- 1960-1969
- Description
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Unknown men working with food engineering equipment. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Professor W. Rudolph Kanne with his electrostatic generator (atom smasher), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1941
- Date
- 1941
- Description
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Photograph of Professor W. Rudolph Kanne in the Physics Building (Chapin Hall) with his electrostatic generator, also known as an atom smasher...
Show morePhotograph of Professor W. Rudolph Kanne in the Physics Building (Chapin Hall) with his electrostatic generator, also known as an atom smasher. Kanne was an assistant professor of Physics at IIT from 1940 to 1944, and worked on Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, with Enrico Fermi on the University of Chicago campus. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- A Home for Tomorrow exhibit, Hermann Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1969
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1969
- Description
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Photograph of an entry in the "A Home for Tomorrow" exhibition in Hermann Hall. The exhibition was part of a symposium on "Planning for...
Show morePhotograph of an entry in the "A Home for Tomorrow" exhibition in Hermann Hall. The exhibition was part of a symposium on "Planning for Tomorrow's Energy Business" scheduled during an annual meeting of the Institute of Gas Technology on Nov. 20, 1969.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999