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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

Unwritten Record

Baumhofer names United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Winfield Scott Clime , later a famous landscape painter, as the cameraman who filmed the 1908 test. According to Agriculture Department lore, this early filmmaking was done with a degree of secrecy.

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Surveying Community Webs Members’ Digital Preservation Needs

Archive-It

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

Of course, it was this approach we took in the early years of Wired magazine. We’d think out loud: “If every school had access to the Internet, then what might change about education?” Wired , in fact, later created the popular “ Found: Artifacts from the Future ” series in the pages of the magazine.).

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

Of course, it was this approach we took in the early years of Wired magazine. We’d think out loud: “If every school had access to the Internet, then what might change about education?” Wired , in fact, later created the popular “ Found: Artifacts from the Future ” series in the pages of the magazine.)