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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Leader
Honored by:
Mr. Ray William
Published early aviation magazine "Aeronautical World" August 1902
through September 1903. Wrote 1902 August article predicting aviation
would become the preferred method of travel and intercontinental as well as
transpolar flight would be normal. Developed a novel glider using turkey
feathers and light weight wood structure. Models launched by rocket power
flown into Lake Erie. Significant inventions resulted in patents world wide
for telephone, telegraph, railway signals, electrical devices, carbon arc lamps.
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