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

Unwritten Record

To celebrate this incredible milestone, we would like to present records related to the Wright Brothers and their achievement. Clime presented his film of the 1908 trials to the signal corps in 1921, which were then transferred it to the National Archives. 486, Air Force Magazine: [link]. The Army’s Specification No.

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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Department of Agriculture, where he was involved with research related to black farmers. Carter presents the Springarn Medal to author Richard Wright in 1941. April 23, 1930 – NY State Assemblyman Ellis Rivers on “Negro Legislators, Past, and Present” Francis Ellis Rivers (1893-1975) received his B.A.

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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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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

The original promise of my next book is pretty simple: I’m trying to paint a picture of the kind of digital world we’ll likely live in one generation from now, based on a survey of where we are presently as a digital society. Of course, it was this approach we took in the early years of Wired magazine.

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

The original promise of my next book is pretty simple: I’m trying to paint a picture of the kind of digital world we’ll likely live in one generation from now, based on a survey of where we are presently as a digital society. Of course, it was this approach we took in the early years of Wired magazine.