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Early Flight uses artifacts to explore how in one short decade people in America and around the world were turning the aircraft into a technology that would usher in the aerial age.

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Medal, Commemorative, Boston to Washington, D.C., July 1911

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American Propeller and Mfg Co. Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

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Requa Gibson Fixed-pitch, Two-blade, Wood Propeller

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Model, Static, Johnson Monoplane, 1911

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Reciprocating engine with 28 steam expansion tubes connected at the bottom to a water supply piping system and at the top to a boiler. A slide valve, piston, and pulley are mounted to a steel-framed tower next to the steam generator.

Stringfellow Steam Engine

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Plaque, Early Birds

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Top view of a gray and white model airplane. The metal struts and wheels are gray, while the wing fabric is white. There is a gray squarelike structure atop the middle set of wings.

Model, Static, Walden IX, 1911

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Wood and fabric Bleriot XI aircraft in museum

Blériot XI

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Tandem-wing aircraft with two pusher propellers along a steam engine. Silk-covered wings show exposed wooden ribs on underside.

Langley Aerodrome Number 5

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Full view of a brown and white flying boat model. There is a black engine at the front and two brown propellers on the two sets of wings. Brown struts separate the two sets of white wings.

Model, Static, Curtiss Twin Tractor

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Two-seat biplane with twin propellers and landing skids in place of wheels. Fabric covered wings, rudder, and elevators. A U.S. Air Corps symbol is painted on the rudder.

1909 Wright Military Flyer

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Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. Ground-Adjustable-Pitch Propeller

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Model, Static, Boland Tailless

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Plaque, James Gordon Bennett, 1909, Glenn Curtiss

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Internal combustion engine consisting of lower crankcase and upper block. The cylinder banks are slightly offset and sit above the block. The cylinder heads house the intake and exhaust valves.

Curtiss B-8, V-8 Engine

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Model, Static, Chanute Bi-plane Gliding Machine, 1896

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Bastow-Page Ground-Adjustable-Pitch Airship Propeller

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Curtiss E-4, In-Line 4 Engine

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Model, Static, 1/4 scale, Cayley 1804 Glider

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American Propeller and Mfg Co. Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

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Collier Plaque

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Medal, Circuit de L'Est

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Model, Static, Chanute Multiple Wing Gliding Machine, 1896

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Medal, Aero Club of America Aviation Medal of Merit, Glenn Curtiss

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