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- "Two-Cycle Diesel Engines, Model 71, Description and Operating Manual," 1939 - Introduced in 1938, the two-stroke Detroit Diesel Series 71 engine powered a wide range of equipment including trucks, buses, farm tractors, and stationary generators. The unit was available in two-, three-, four-, six-, eight-, twelve-, sixteen-, and twenty-four-cylinder versions. This operating manual provided detailed instructions and diagrams for running, adjusting, and maintaining Series 71 engines.
- 1939
- Collections - Artifact
"Two-Cycle Diesel Engines, Model 71, Description and Operating Manual," 1939
Introduced in 1938, the two-stroke Detroit Diesel Series 71 engine powered a wide range of equipment including trucks, buses, farm tractors, and stationary generators. The unit was available in two-, three-, four-, six-, eight-, twelve-, sixteen-, and twenty-four-cylinder versions. This operating manual provided detailed instructions and diagrams for running, adjusting, and maintaining Series 71 engines.
- Diesel Engine, Pforzheim, Germany, 1898 - This photograph shows one of the earliest commercially produced diesel engines. Built in 1898 by Maschinenfabrik-Augsburg AG, a supporter of Rudolf Diesel and his engine, it was installed at a tool manufacturing company in Pforzheim, Germany. Agents for Henry Ford located and purchased the engine in 1929. The engine remains an important part of the museum's collection.
- 1898
- Collections - Artifact
Diesel Engine, Pforzheim, Germany, 1898
This photograph shows one of the earliest commercially produced diesel engines. Built in 1898 by Maschinenfabrik-Augsburg AG, a supporter of Rudolf Diesel and his engine, it was installed at a tool manufacturing company in Pforzheim, Germany. Agents for Henry Ford located and purchased the engine in 1929. The engine remains an important part of the museum's collection.
- Kahlenberg 4-Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine, 1927 -
- 1927
- Collections - Artifact
Kahlenberg 4-Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine, 1927
- Ford Diesel Locomotive, Ford Rouge Plant, September 1938 - Some 100 miles of railroad track covered the grounds of Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. The automaker maintained its own fleet of locomotives to move incoming railcars loaded with raw materials, and outgoing railcars filled with finished parts and automobiles, around the complex. Additionally, specialized tank cars ferried molten iron from the factory's blast furnaces to its foundry.
- September 07, 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Ford Diesel Locomotive, Ford Rouge Plant, September 1938
Some 100 miles of railroad track covered the grounds of Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. The automaker maintained its own fleet of locomotives to move incoming railcars loaded with raw materials, and outgoing railcars filled with finished parts and automobiles, around the complex. Additionally, specialized tank cars ferried molten iron from the factory's blast furnaces to its foundry.
- Advertisement for General Motors, "The Lever under the Rise in Real Wages," 1935 - The image of the two locomotives -- the Central Pacific's <em>Jupiter</em> and the Union Pacific's No. 119 -- nose to nose at the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad remains one of the most enduring in American history. General Motors used it in this 1930s ad to symbolize the industrial progress that improved Americans' standard of living.
- November 28, 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Advertisement for General Motors, "The Lever under the Rise in Real Wages," 1935
The image of the two locomotives -- the Central Pacific's Jupiter and the Union Pacific's No. 119 -- nose to nose at the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad remains one of the most enduring in American history. General Motors used it in this 1930s ad to symbolize the industrial progress that improved Americans' standard of living.
- GM 6-71 Diesel Engine, Used on Jacques Cousteau's Ship "Calypso" - The adaptable Detroit Diesel Series 71 engine, introduced in 1938, powered a wide range of equipment including trucks, buses, farm tractors, and stationary generators. This six-cylinder example drove an electric generator aboard <em>Calypso</em>, the research ship used by French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. The dependable <em>Calypso</em> engine provided more than 100,000 hours of service from 1943 until its replacement in 1981.
- 1950-1981
- Collections - Artifact
GM 6-71 Diesel Engine, Used on Jacques Cousteau's Ship "Calypso"
The adaptable Detroit Diesel Series 71 engine, introduced in 1938, powered a wide range of equipment including trucks, buses, farm tractors, and stationary generators. This six-cylinder example drove an electric generator aboard Calypso, the research ship used by French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. The dependable Calypso engine provided more than 100,000 hours of service from 1943 until its replacement in 1981.
- Diesel Engine, 1898 -
- 1898
- Collections - Artifact
Diesel Engine, 1898
- Typical 4-Cylinder Ford Diesel Tractor Engine, 1965-1976 -
- 1965-1976
- Collections - Artifact
Typical 4-Cylinder Ford Diesel Tractor Engine, 1965-1976