A Brief History of Aerospace / Oceanic Engineering
1886
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a new option in Marine Engineering and an option in Naval Architecture.
1891
First Submerged Oil Wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of Grand Lake St. Mary's in Ohio.
1903
Wright Brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1904
Ludwig Prandtl develops the Boundary Layer Theory, which pointed out that fluid flows with small viscosity, and can be divided into a thin viscous layer near solid surfaces and interfaces.
1913
Jerome Hunsaker designs MITs first wind tunnel for a new laboratory of aeronautical engineering.
1920
The first U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Langley ( CV-1 ), was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, and was the U.S. Navy’s first electrically propelled ship.
1927
Charles Lindbergh completes first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1930
The first complete scale model airplane was installed in the 10-foot wind tunnel for design and development testing.
1930-1939
American engineers developed their own underwater sound detection technology. They began using the term SONAR in the Second World War.
1933
Wiley Post completes first solo flight around the world.
1935
Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to solo the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland, California.
1955
In 1955, the first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea.
1957
Russian launch of first artificial satellite of the Earth, Sputnik 1.
1969
The Apollo Program successful, first astronauts land on the Moon and return to Earth.
1977
The Viking lands on Mars.
1981
Launch of Columbia, first space shuttle.
1988
Chrys Chryssostomidis founds the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory.
2011
Mars Science Laboratory, a space probe mission to land a rover on Mars, was launched on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed ʺCuriosityʺ on August 6, 2012.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a new option in Marine Engineering and an option in Naval Architecture.
1891
First Submerged Oil Wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of Grand Lake St. Mary's in Ohio.
1903
Wright Brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1904
Ludwig Prandtl develops the Boundary Layer Theory, which pointed out that fluid flows with small viscosity, and can be divided into a thin viscous layer near solid surfaces and interfaces.
1913
Jerome Hunsaker designs MITs first wind tunnel for a new laboratory of aeronautical engineering.
1920
The first U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Langley ( CV-1 ), was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, and was the U.S. Navy’s first electrically propelled ship.
1927
Charles Lindbergh completes first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1930
The first complete scale model airplane was installed in the 10-foot wind tunnel for design and development testing.
1930-1939
American engineers developed their own underwater sound detection technology. They began using the term SONAR in the Second World War.
1933
Wiley Post completes first solo flight around the world.
1935
Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to solo the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland, California.
1955
In 1955, the first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea.
1957
Russian launch of first artificial satellite of the Earth, Sputnik 1.
1969
The Apollo Program successful, first astronauts land on the Moon and return to Earth.
1977
The Viking lands on Mars.
1981
Launch of Columbia, first space shuttle.
1988
Chrys Chryssostomidis founds the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory.
2011
Mars Science Laboratory, a space probe mission to land a rover on Mars, was launched on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed ʺCuriosityʺ on August 6, 2012.