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| Title | Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace with his invention, the high altitude oxygen mask, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | William Randolph Lovelace II (1907-1965) was a pioneering physician and leading figure in aerospace medicine. Himself a pilot, Lovelace studied the problems of high-altitude flight. In 1938 the Aeromedical Field Laboratory located at Wright Field asked him to develop an oxygen mask for use in high-altitude aircraft. Randolph later served in the Air Force during World War II, performing experiments in escape and the use of the parachute at high-altitude. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross for an experiment in which he parachuted from a B-17 to validate the use of a bail-out oxygen bottle during high-altitude descent. Lovelace was later first assistant to Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic, and Chief of the Aero-Medical Laboratory at Wright Field. In 1964, he was appointed Director of Space Medicine for NASA and was instrumental in establishing criteria for the selection of astronauts. Lovelace died at age 58 in the crash of a private plane.
This photo shows Dr. Lovelace with a |
| Notes | Written on photo: Dr. W. R. Lovelace
Caption information sources: American Astronomical Society website (http://www.astronautical.org/awards/lovelace); http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/4150/Randolph-Lovelace-The-Flying-Doctor-Part-1
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): December 3, 1938. |
| Subjects | Oxygen masks--Washington (State) |
| Personal Names | Lovelace, W. Randolph (William Randolph), 1907-1965 |
| Places | United States—Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.5442.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
