Government expert listens to broadcasts of automobile. The Automotive Section of the Bureau of Standards is studying the anti-knock proportion of fuel used in automobile and aircraft engines and the scientist in this photograph is "listening in" to the signals of an engine instead of listening
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- Date
- 1930
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 7,752 × 10,008 pixels
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"Government expert listens to broadcasts of automobile. The Automotive Section of the Bureau of Standards is studying the anti-knock proportion of fuel used in automobile and aircraft engines and the scientist in this photograph is "listening in" to the signals of an engine instead of listening" (1930). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Government_expert_listens_to_broadcasts_of_automobile_(...)_The_Automotive_Section_of_the_Bureau_of_Standards_is_studying_the_anti-knock_proportion_of_fuel_used_in_automobile_and_aircraft_LCCN2016889680.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 280994.
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