Presentation of First Caterpillar Engine to National Museum of History and Technology
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ID: SIA RU000371 [96-919]
Creator: Caterpillar Tractor Company
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1973
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: January 1974, Image No. 96-919
National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now known as the National Museum of American History, receives first Caterpillar diesel engine "Old Betsy," the world's first mass produced diesel engine built in 1930. With Robert M. Vogel, chairman of the Department of Science and Technology at NMHT, William Blackie, director and former board chairman of Caterpillar, Dr. Robert Angus Brooks, SI Under Secretary, Harmon S. Eberhard, Louis Neumiller, and Charles J. Schad, former assistant director of Caterpillar research.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: January 1974, Image No. 96-919
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU000371 [96-919]
Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 8;