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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Glenn Research Center, Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2, John H. Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH
- Title: Glenn Research Center, Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2, John H. Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH
- Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Wasielewski, Eugene
Pinkel, Benjamin
Williams, Dan
Lundin, Bruce
Gelalles, Achille
Burns and Roe Company
Sam W. Emerson Company
Elliott Company
Roots-Connersville Corporation
Ross Heater Company
Treadwell Construction
General Electric Company
Pratt and Whitney
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Glenn Research Center (GRC)
Arrighi, Robert S. , historian
Christianson, Justine , transmitter
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) , sponsor
O'Bryan, Nancy , editor
Feher, Lori , editor
Passe, Lorie , editor
Schwinn, Quentin , photographer
Caswell, Bridget , photographer
Grills, Mark , photographer - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium: Data Page(s): 138
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HAER OH-136
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- The field records contain 8x10 prints of the images included in the historical report.
- Significance: The Propulsion System Laboratory's two chambers, referred to as PSL No. 1 and PSL No. 2, could simulate the internal airflow conditions experienced by the Nation's most powerful engines over a full range of power and altitude levels. This allowed researchers to analyze the engine's thrust, fuel consumption, airflow limits, combustion blowout levels, acceleration, starting characteristics, and an array of other parameters. The range of PSL's studies was later expanded to include noise reduction, flutter, inlet distortions, and engine controls. The PSL was used to study the performance of a variety of rocket engines in the 1960s. PSL No. 1 and 2 served as a major component of NASA Glenn's advanced propulsion legacy that began in 1942 and continues today. The facility was a technological combination of the static-sea-level test stands and the complex AWT, which re-created the actual flight conditions one a larger scale. PSL's significance lies in the size and power of the engines it tested. When it became operational in 1952, the PSL was the Nation's only facility that could operate these large full-size engine systems in controlled altitude conditions. The ability to control the test environment was imperative in the advancement of the ever-increasing and complex turbojet systems. Today, PSL's successor, PSL No. 3 and 4, is NASA's only facility with this capability. PSL's two 14'-0"-diameter, 24'-0"-long chambers were first used to study the increasingly powerful jet engines of the early 1950s and the ramjets for missile programs such as Navaho and Bomarc. With the advent of the space program in the late 1950s, the facility was used to study complex rocket engines, including the Pratt & Whitney RL-10 that was used to power the Centaur rocket and Saturn I upper stages. In the mid-1960s, the PSL returned its focus to jet engines, which continued to grow in size and performance. It was a vital tool in studying complex programs such as inlet distortion and flutter and contributed to NASA's fly-by-wire research. The PSL served as a key component in NASA Glenn's sixty-five-year history of altitude testing of engines and was proven to be a robust test facility that could keep pace with the relentless advance of aerospace technology over the decades. The original chambers were versatile enough to study emerging propulsion systems such as the turbojet, ramjet, chemical rocket, and turbofan engines, and the PSL's work on the RL-10 rocket engine was essential to the success of the Centaur Program.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1597, N1598
- Survey number: HAER OH-136
- Building/structure dates: 1949-1952 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1955 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: after. 1960- before. 1969 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 2009 Demolished
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 41.4145, -81.8656
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER OH-136
- Medium: Data Page(s): 138
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- Call Number: HAER OH-136
- Medium: Data Page(s): 138
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