Date: | 07 02 1909 |
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Description: | Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Ray Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
Date: | 10 10 1902 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Much of the Wright Brothers' success derived from the fact... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
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