Description: Photograph of Perry Okey operating the "Okey Auto #2" in 1899 from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photograph Collection. A typed caption on the back reads "Okey Auto #2, the first one Perry Okey operated on Columbus streets. Picture was taken in spring of 1899 at Long and Fourth by Geo. Smith who ran a dancing school there. Okey made only one of this model -- it had one-cylinder engine, would go 25 miles per hour. He drove it two years between East Side home and city elec plan on west bank of Scioto where he had workshop on 3rd floor. Note Okey's resemblance to the young FDR." Perry Okey (1873-1963) was a resident of Columbus, Ohio. After working for the Columbus Waterworks beginning in 1897, he went on to operate the Okey Auto Company and later the Okey Motor Car Company in the early 1900s. He was an active inventor whose patents included an automobile self-starter, a saw-cutting machine, a fluid-density meter, a computing device, an apparatus for feeding lines, a refrigerating system, a lens grinding machine, and more. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F03_05_01
Subjects: Automobiles; Transportation; Inventors; Science and Technology; Science and technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting Charles F. Kettering with a Buick automobile, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Kettering is credited with inventing the electric ignition and self-starter for the automobile. He was one of the founders of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, which became the Delco Products Division of General Motors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01161
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Automobiles; Automobile industry; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photography--Ohio; Science and technology
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Science Hall at Antioch College in Greene County, Ohio, in Yellow Springs. The caption for this photograph reads "Science Hall, the gift of Mr. C.F. Kettering, contains over a hundred classrooms, laboratories, and offices. It also provides a home for several industrial research projects and for the Photosythesis Research Foundation. All Antioch students take courses in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and geology, in order to have a basic understanding of all the general fields of knowledge." Antioch College was founded in 1852 as the first nonsectarian, co-educational institution in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to both men and women. It was also among the first to offer equal educational opportunities to African Americans. Antioch Hall, completed in 1853, served as the main building for the college and included a chapel, lecture hall, recitation rooms, laboratory, and library. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_015_1
Subjects: Education; Science and Technology; Universities and colleges; Antioch College
Places: Yellow Springs (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken for the Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper and identified on the reverse as a radar speed car in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Visible in the background of the photograph is a large parking lot and the Tracy-Wells Company Building. This Chevrolet automobile features a vehicle-mounted device used by law enforcement to measure the speed of surrounding objects and detect speeders in traffic. The technology, which uses Doppler radar, was developed during World War II, and by the late 1940s was being put into use by law enforcement and in traffic surveys around the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F05_10_01
Subjects: Law enforcement; Automobiles; Traffic; Science and technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration of the Cincinnati College of Medicine's Museum and Practical Chemical Laboratory appears in the Centennial Issue of the "Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, Centennial Issue," published in 1957. In 1896, the Medical College of Ohio merged with the University of Cincinnati. The Miami Medical College also joined the University of Cincinnati in 1909, creating the Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati. In 1920, the college changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04222
Subjects: Medicine--History; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photographs depict the construction of the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, which was opened to the public July 20, 1972. The third image, measuring 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) depicts the completed building named in honor of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. The museum in Wapakoneta is managed by the Ohio Historical Society. Neil A. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930. He received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. For the next 17 years he worked for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft. Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962 and was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, which was launched on March 16, 1966. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3194_3806014_001
Subjects: Transportation; Science and Technology; Architecture; Flight; Construction; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Galleries & museums; Aviation; Space flight
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Six 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm) photographs document a homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, who invented the polio vaccine. Hope joked with the crowd that Armstrong was adjusting well to life on Earth after his space visit, "but he keeps throwing his shoes out the window and eating toothpaste," referring to the system of trash disposal on early flights and the practice of packaging astronauts' food in tubes. Neil A. Armstrong (b. 1930), the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta. He received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. For the next 17 years he worked for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he was a project pilot on many pioneering high-speed aircraft. Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962 and was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, which was launched on March 16, 1966. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3101_3737076_007
Subjects: Science and Technology; Arts and entertainment; Celebrations; Parades & processions; Hope, Bob, 1903-2003; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Flight; Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-1993; Astronauts
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: A group of test pilots for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Columbus, Ohio on the flight line, ca. 1940 - 1945. The Columbus plant was established in 1940 when the Curtiss-Wright Corporation expanded to meet the increased demand for military aircraft during World War II. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00703
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the Perkins Observatory near Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Near the observatory is the famous "Big Ear" radio telescope, which had a collecting area of 340 by 70 feet (104 by 21 meters). The Ohio Sky Survey recorded here between 1965 and 1972 was the most accurate, reliable, and complete mapping of cosmic radio signals (the "radio sky") for many years. This observatory conducted a 24-year continuous search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, during which the famous "Wow!" signal was received in 1977. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06504
Subjects: Observatories; Astronomy; Telescopes; Interstellar communication; Science and Technology
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Wind tunnel, Wright Field, Dayton." Activated on October 12, 1927, Wright Field replaced the smaller McCook field as the nation's premier center for military aviation research and development. At Wright Field, altitude and speed records were set, aircraft flying characteristics were studied in huge wind tunnels, improved fuels and power-plants were tested and new aircraft instruments were developed during the 1920s and 1930s. After Pearl Harbor and the United States' entry into World War II, the flight test mission of Wright Field made the facility even more crucial to the nation's war effort. American and allied aircraft were brought to Wright Field and put through test programs to improve their performance. Captured enemy aircraft were evaluated by Wright Field's expert pilots and flight engineers to uncover weaknesses and strengths in their designs. After World War II, Wright Field continued to play a major part in flight research and development. Growth of residential areas around Wright Field forced officials to limit flight test operations in 1951 and transfer the Flight Test Division to Area C at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_005_1
Subjects: Science and Technology; Air bases; Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio); Wind tunnels
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Model for a science building at the Ohio State University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_048_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Science and technology; Ohio State University; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 8.5" by 11" (21.59 by 27.94 cm) image depicts Thomas Alva Edison visiting his birthplace in Milan, Ohio on August 11, 1923. The Edison family moved to Canada at the end of the American Revolution with others who had taken the side of the British king rather than the American colonists. In the 1830s, the family was forced to flee Canada due to Edison's father Samuel's participation in the unsuccessful Papineau-MacKenzie Rebellion against the Canadian government. Samuel and Nancy Elliot Edison and their children settled first in Milan, Ohio and then in Port Huron, Michigan. Edison (1847-1931) gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. As a boy, Edison was boxed in the ears by an angry train conductor after he destroyed a box car when his science experiments exploded. Edison pointed to the incident as the cause of his loss of hearing, which worsened throughout his life. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1495_1160563_001
Subjects: Science and Technology; Daily Life; Architecture; Inventors; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Houses
Places: Milan (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)