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Employees of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company Working on the Kettering Bug, 1918

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Artifact Overview

Delco founder Charles Kettering designed the Kettering Bug for the U.S. Army during World War I. Powered by a four-cylinder engine, the Bug used a gyroscope and a system of electric and pneumatic controls to automatically fly a payload of explosives to a remote target. Unreliable in tests, the Bug was never used in combat.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1918

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.189.63701

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.5 in
Width: 11.25 in

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