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Frank Marx discusses airplane carburetors
Frank Marx standing in front of huge propeller talking about airplane carburation / airplane in the sky spinning around in circles / plane diving / narrator list inventors: Lawrence Sperry; Virginius Evans Clark; Lieutenant Colonel...
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Radio station broadcasts newspaper introduces fax machine prototype
Inventor WGH Finch demonstrates his early fax machine / takes top of machine, allows it to scan newspaper and then puts it back together / prints newspaper article / man in office receives same newspaper article on his office fax machine.
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The famous Wright brothers make their first flight in Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
The famous Wright brothers make their first flight in Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
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Inventor Thomas Edison's Black Mariah movie studio occupies a field in West Orange, New Jersey.
Inventor Thomas Edison's Black Mariah movie studio occupies a field in West Orange, New Jersey.
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Inventors demonstrate solar battery
Title card: "Battery Powered by the Sun" / miniature Ferris wheel powered by a lamp aimed at a solar battery / CU battery / inventors - physicist Gerald Pearson, engineer Daryl Chapin and Calvin Fuller, chemist / demonstration of how...
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Henry Ford and Thomas Edison go on a camping trip with friends.
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison go on a camping trip with friends.
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Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
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Thomas Edison turns the lever on a film camera as Henry Ford watches.
Thomas Edison turns the lever on a film camera as Henry Ford watches.
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Henry Ford and his son Edsel look at a globe in their workshop.
Henry Ford and his son Edsel look at a globe in their workshop.
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Henry Ford stands next to Thomas Edison.
Henry Ford stands next to Thomas Edison.
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A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
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Henry Ford holds and plays with his grandson, Henry Ford II.
Henry Ford holds and plays with his grandson, Henry Ford II.
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German inventor Gustav Baumm test-drives his new streamlined motorcycle in Munich
Title "Like a torpedo - 20 records set by novel motorcycle!" superimposed over shot from moving car of Gustav Baumm driving motorcycle with its fuselage down highway / motorcycle comes to stop as two mechanics rush up to it, they lift...
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Henry and Edsel Ford examine a Ford Cabriolet.
Henry and Edsel Ford examine a Ford Cabriolet.
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Thomas Edison at 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration at the Edison Institute
CU Thomas Edison in his later years / Edison stands with back facing camera as he listens to President Herbert Hoover at the 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration of the 50th anniversary of Edison's invention of electric light, held at...