St. Louis Heat Experiment

Google Arts & Culture hosts a series of images showing a bizarre-looking experiment conducted at the St. Louis University Medical School in 1956. The photos were taken by Life photographer Albert Fenn.

Google offers no more details about the photos, but some searching reveals the same photos on Getty Images where they're identified as "an experiment about the effects of heat on a body during highspeed jet flight."

Who the researcher was, I don't know.

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Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 21, 2020
Category: Experiments | 1950s

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