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Fatigue laboratory

ca. 1940

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Fatigue laboratory
  • Title
  • Fatigue laboratory
  • Creator
  • Gulf Oil Corporation
  • Date
  • ca. 1940
  • Identifier
  • 20170309-hpichswp-0027
  • Description
  • An image of Gulf's Research Laboratory. The caption reads: "The endurance limit of a metal is the greatest unit stress to which it can be repeatedly subjected without resultant failure. It is determined by the machine in the foreground in which a standard machined sample of the metal under examination is installed as a rotary beam that is uniformly loaded across the center section by hanging weights."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gulf Oil Corporation.
    Gulf Research & Development Co.
    Laboratories.
  • Source
  • Gulf Oil Corporation Records, 1865-1985, MSS 954, Detre Library and Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Gulf Oil Corporation Records
  • Rights Information
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