Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Gallet
- Physical Description
- Hand-held stopwatch, nickel plated with white face and black Arabic numerals (increments of 5, 5-60). Smaller inset dial above second hand mount to record minutes (1-10, increments of 1). "The Sun" in black script immediately below second hand mount. Plain back, no cover over crystal. Mechanism visible through glass when back opened. Markings stamped inside back cover.
- Summary
- Wilbur and Orville Wright inaugurated the aerial age with their historic first powered airplane flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. The brothers used this stopwatch to time the flights. The first effort covered 120 feet in 12 seconds. On the best of the four flights made that day, the Wright Flyer traveled 852 feet in 59 seconds.
- Credit Line
- Donated by Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Inc.
- c. 1903
- Inventory Number
- A19640054000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-People
- Materials
- Overall: Brass, copper, steel, nickel plated
- Watch Face: Porcelain
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 5.5 × 2 × 7.5cm (2 3/16 × 13/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
- 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_A19640054000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv930a13f88-4058-4d6a-a9c5-3eac8c7a78b7
