153 results for: Aerospace
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Vivian Laye, September 13, 2005
Interview with Vivian Laye, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project in September 2005. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, her Boeing-subsidized education and work-life balance, the union, and other employment.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.2
Date:2005
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, September 1, 2005
Interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, difficulties with welding, working at the Boeing Little Red Barn, and the union. Please note that second part of interview is missing.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.3
Date:2005
Poster
"No Nerds, No Birds," poster from Boeing engineers strike, 2000
On February 9, 2000, more than 17,000 engineers and technicians from the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) walked out of Boeing plants across the country. This was the first major strike for the engineers' organization, which formed in Seattle in 1944. After the 40-day standoff, a mediated contract was approved with significant SPEEA gains on pay increases…
ID Number:2020.8.1
Date:2000
Ephemera
The Gear Works brochure, Seattle, circa 1999
The Gear Works was founded in 1946 by Ingwald Ramberg in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. By the 1990s, the family-owned company had grown to become one of the largest gear-manufacturing companies in North America. Its huge gears were used in wind turbines, large earth moving equipment, NASA aerospace projects, and more. The company also repaired and replaced the gear boxes…
ID Number:2021.86.7
Date:Circa 1999
Photograph
Blue Angels flying over Lake Washington during Seafair, Mount Rainier in background, Seattle, 1987
The Blue Angels are the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron, founded in 1946. They have flown in Seattle's Seafair air show almost every year since the air shows began in 1972. The Blue Angels have flown eight different models of demonstration aircraft in their history. In this image taken by photographer Josef Scaylea they fly new F/A-18 Hornets over Lake…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.49
Date:1987
Photograph
Blue Angels flying over Lake Washington during Seafair, Mount Rainier in background, Seattle, August 1978
The Blue Angels are the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron, founded in 1946. They have flown in Seattle's Seafair air show almost every year since the air shows began in 1972. Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.175
Date:8/1978
Photograph
Boeing hydrofoil in Elliott Bay, Seattle, November 1978
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.185
Date:1978
Photograph
First 707 passenger flight from Sea-Tac Airport, Bow Lake, 1958
The Boeing 707 Stratoliner was the first American jetliner and would prove to be the first of the company's successful line of commercial jets. This image of the first passenger 707 flight out of SeaTac taken by Josef Scaylea was intended to convey the feeling of speed.Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.192
Date:1958
Photograph
Aerial view of Sea-Tac Airport on opening day, July 9, 1949
In 1942, construction started on a new international airport between Seattle and Tacoma. The new airport, dubbed Sea-Tac, was formally dedicated on July 9, 1949. The airport cost $11 milliion and opened free of debt. United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pan American World Airways and Western Airlines started their regular passenger service at Sea-Tac on the day of the dedication.This July…
ID Number:PI20340
Date:1949
Photograph
Aerial of Boeing Plant #2 looking southeast, Seattle, 1943
Boeing's Plant #2 was built in 1936 in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood next to the Duwamish River, with additional construction in 1941. The main saw manufacturing of iconic planes like the B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers, B-29 "Superfortress" bombers, B-52 bomber, and the 737. A crucial site of production during World War II, the plant was camouflaged at one point during the…
ID Number:PI23924
Date:1943