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Man with Wings
March 23, 1905
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
Iowa's First Flyer
March 1909
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, Iowa, where he experimented with gliders...
Automatic Foul Detector
November 12, 1944
Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley.
Glenn Curtiss and Post
July 1910
Airplane inventor Glenn Curtiss (with moustache), and his friend and fellow aviator Augustus Post, to his right. Although identified by Warner to 1909, it actually documents a 1910 exhibition at At...
Obed Hussey
1850
Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye patch over his left eye. Hussey demonstrated...
Early Birds Certificate
December 3, 1928
Cerificate awarded to Arthur P. Warner, the first Wisconsin man to fly, by the Early Birds, an organization formed to honor individuals who flew before 1916. Warner flew at Beloit in 1909.
