Address delivered before the American Philosophical Society, May 7, 1909. Bell's address on "Aerial Locomotion" is a detailed description of kite construction and experiments, and the adaptation of engines to "aeroplanes." This lecture was high-lighted by a moving picture of a July 4, 1908 flight (the film is not at the American Philosophical Society).
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell became a member of the American Philsophical Society in 1882.
Provenance
Location of originals:Holder of original unknown.
General physical description
1 carbon typescript volume, 23 pp.
General note
Compare this address with Bell's "Aerial Locomotion," National Geographic Magazine 18(Jan. 1907):1-34, with 33 illustrations.
Corporate Name(s)
- Aerial Experimental Association.
Personal Name(s)
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930
Subject(s)
- Aeronautics--United States--History
- Airplanes -- Motors.
- Flying-machines.
- Kites - Construction
- Kites - Experiments
- Locomotion.
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