Because of its light weight, this five cylinder engine was selected by Emile Berliner, an inventor possibly better known in the acoustics field, to drive a helicopter's vertical shaft in a 1908 "test ...

Born a simple country boy in Opp, Alabama 05-22-1950. Earliest memory was a desire to be an Aviator watching huge formations of WWII Aircraft ...

After their trip, Spencer and White drew this map of their route, including the unplanned stops.

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Navigating in space: to determine position in space, an Apollo astronaut located a specific star using a single-power, wide-field telescope and then took a fix using a sextant. While this instrument ...

Physical Description Magazine with case. holds 200 feet of 9 1/2 inch film on 9 1/2 x 5 3/16 inch spool; magazine housing contains supply spool, take-up spool; face has built-in vacuum gauge, exposure ...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of digital image scans of eleven photographs taken by Laura W. Heermance (1916-1960) in France during the Spring of 1937. The photographs were shot Le ...