Iron Man Museum

This museum offers exhibits related to the history of the Joshua Hendy Iron Works plant that was founded in 1856 in San Francisco and relocated to Sunnyvale after the 1906 earthquake.  The plant supported gold mining, development of the California water distribution system and the Panama Canal and supported World War I and II by building ship engines.  In the mid 1900's the plant focused on electric utilities, optical and radio telescopes and the nuclear engine for rocket vehicle for manned mission to Mars.  Now the plant is a government supplier of generators, propulsion units and missile systems for submarines and aircraft carriers.