Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Orville Wright
- Wilbur Wright
- Physical Description
- Long narrow reddish brown wood fragment from propeller of 1908 Wright Military Flyer. Paper tag tied to fragment indicating provenance that appears to date from the period the fragment separated from the aircraft, i.e., 1908. Writing only on on one side of tag.
- Summary
- Wooden fragment from one of the propellers of the 1908 Wright Military Flyer. The fragment was separated from the aircraft at the time of the September 17, 1908, crash at Fort Myer, Virginia, which killed Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge and severely injured Orville Wright.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sue Hersman.
- 1908
- Inventory Number
- A19990071000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-People
- Materials
- Wood, paper, string
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Fragment): 11 × 1.2 × 0.6cm (4 5/16 × 1/2 × 1/4 in.)
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W) (Tag): 5.3 × 9.9cm (2 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Overall (3g): 0.1kg (0.2lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19990071000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c56e2af0-1de7-4ab2-9181-fdc046338861
