NASA stress rupture machine - photo

[Altair]

Stress rupture machine at NASA's Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center), c.1964. Full caption: "STRESS RUPTURE MACHINE AND WISKER TENSILE TEST MACHINE IN THE BASIC MATERIALS LABORATORY BML"

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Previously:

1964 NASA tensile machine crack toughness test - photo
1963 NASA clean room tig welder - photo
1956 NACA metallurgical services worker - photo
1952 NACA heat transfer test section and rig - photo
1956 NACA magnaflux inspection - photo

[Frank S]

No need for a fancy machine like that just spool up a 100 yards on a Garcia bait cast reel and hand it to a bass fisherman he can tell you within 3 hits exactly how strong your whisker line is