1936 Liquid Rocket Motor Test, 1936 [photograph].

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1936 Liquid Rocket Motor Test, 1936 [photograph].

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Copies from project report by Dr. Malina, 10 August 1945. [Description from photo index.]. ?Photo 6, Motor with Fuel burning outside? [Caption from report.]. The earliest known liquid rocket motor tests near the present site of JPL were done between October 1936 and January 1937 in the Arroyo Seco by a group of Caltech graduate students, under the guidance of Theodore von Kármán, the first director of JPL. This image was taken on November 28, 1936, and is one of several photos of the test series. Although a bit fuzzy, it shows the motor producing thrust, as evidenced by the two-foot flame being emitted from the rocket nozzle.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...