View of Twin Silencers in front of the Development Laboratory, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Wright Aeronautical Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

View of Twin Silencers in front of the Development Laboratory, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey

Date:

21 March 1949 or before

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.0 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.5 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0365

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Wood-Ridge, New Jersey] / DESCRIPTION [Development Laboratory - / Twin Silencers] / DATE TAKEN / [Received 3-21-49] JOB No. / [1926-AP] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [From Owner - PR1162-A / Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "TAKEN" is covered by a series of X's] labelled and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "Twin Silencers, each 8 ft. in diameter and 28 ft. / long, that hush deafening roar of low pressure ex- / haust from burners and burner-turbines. The 1,000 / horsepower motor in the background (right) drives the fan that draws the gasses out of the test rooms." [there are two thin black lines at the top of the label, one between the 3rd and 4th lines of text and one at the bottom of the text]

Location:

Wood-Ridge; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
tanks (containers)
pipes (conduits)
airplane engine assembly plant
aerodynamical laboratory
factory (structure)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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