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--Ohio--History; Automotive technology; Transportation; Inventors; 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; Automotive technology; Automobile industry; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photography--Ohio
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: 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; Aeronautics; Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-1993; Astronauts
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a painting titled "Dawn of a New Light," which depicts inventor Thomas Edison at different life stages. The painting was created by Ohio artist Howard Chandler Christy in 1950 and hangs in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03333
Subjects: Painters -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin 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: caption reads: "Nurses home at Middletown Hospital" Middletown Hospital, now Atrium Medical Center, is located in Butler County, Ohio. The hospital was established to assist the Middletown community in times of medical need. The hospital was officially opened on March 5, 1917 with 28 beds. By 1923, the need for a larger hospital was recognized and the hospital expanded to 100 beds. Middletown Hospital established one of the country's first coronary care units in a community hospital, became second in the entire Cincinnati/Dayton area to begin a cardiac rehabilitation program, the first to perform FDA-approved total hip replacement and the first to use the Yag laser. Middletown has received numerous awards including top honors from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the first Ohio hospital to be ISO 9001:2000 certified. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_049_1
Subjects: Hospitals--History--Ohio; Nurses; Science and Technology; Medicine
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1937, this photograph shows the Abbe Observatory, located on Lafayette Circle in Clifton Heights in Cincinnati, Ohio. Abbe Conservatory was the only commemoratively-named weather station in the United States. The Observatory is named after Cleveland Abbe, a Cincinnati meteorologist known as "Old Probability," first director of the National Weather Service. Abbe came to Cincinnati at the request of the Cincinnati Astronomical Society in 1868, restored its neglected observatory, and began daily forecasts in 1869. In 1870, Abbe no longer had financial support for his research and he left Cincinnati for New York where he was appointed director of the National Weather Service in 1871. 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_B03F12_010_1
Subjects: Meteorology; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Science and Technology
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Perkins Observatory, affiliated with Ohio Wesleyan University was completed in 1931, is located in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00336
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph, from a yearbook dated from 1940, shows students of Brilliant High School sit in the physics class of George T. McKinstry. The student in the white shirt and in the front row has been identified as Charles Campbell. The student near the left side of the photograph appears to be reading an article from the newspaper about baseball titled: "Greetings to Rosy Rowswell, from the home town Tarentum [Pennsylvania]." Brilliant High School was located at 2nd Street in Brilliant, Ohio, in Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1952, a new building was opened at 1004 3rd Street. In 1972, Brilliant High School merged with Smithfield High School, to become Buckeye North High School. Finally, in 1990, the three schools in the district merged together to form the Buckeye Local High School in Rayland, Ohio. 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_B08F06_025_001
Subjects: High school; Classrooms -- Ohio; Students; Science and Technology
Places: Brilliant (Ohio); Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: An unidentified young man sitting in a homemade, 2-cylinder automobile. The name "Havoline" appears twice on the car, referring to a company that still produces automotive maintenance products. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07773
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Automobiles--Ohio--History; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong as a child with family friends Mr. and Mrs. Glen Buller, ca. 1935. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to be the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05329
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)