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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

Unwritten Record

Army Signal Corps cameraman captured those flights, since its motion-picture activity was carried out under the same authority as it’s photographic work via the transmitting communications by signals. 486, Air Force Magazine: [link]. to record an airplane in flight at his own expense. The Army’s Specification No.

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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. Wired , in fact, later created the popular “ Found: Artifacts from the Future ” series in the pages of the magazine.). Our agricultural practices and policies? Hence my trip to DC last week.). Our insurance industries?

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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. Wired , in fact, later created the popular “ Found: Artifacts from the Future ” series in the pages of the magazine.) Our agricultural practices and policies? Hence my trip to DC last week.) Our insurance industries? Our life expectancies?