Radome
name: label: Associated Name
content: Shamban, William S.
notes: label: Description
content: Radome for a Minuteman missile manufactured by W. S. Shamban & Co. William S. Shamban (1915-2005) was born in Malden, Mass. and graduated from M.I.T. By 1961 he was in southern California, trading as Shamco and manufacturing fluorocarbon products for aerospace and broad industrial markets. The Minuteman, the first solid fuelled ICBM deployed by the U.S. Air Force, first came on line in 1962.
label: Description
content: Parts of this radome are made of Teflon (a polytetrafluoroethylene) discovered in 1938 by a chemist working for DuPont, and developed into a product soon thereafter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0452.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0452.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0452
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, teflon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7157: 26 in x 48 in x 40 in; 66.04 cm x 121.92 cm x 101.6 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 3/8 in x 9 in x 9 in; 100.0125 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.86 cm