TRANSPORTATION - AVIATION
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![Steam-kite, or inclined plane, for navigating the air, invented by John H. Pennington, of Baltimore, Md.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081208140018im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a06000/3a06600/3a06649t.gif) |
Steam-kite, or inclined plane, for navigating the air, invented by John H. Pennington, of Baltimore, Md. Lithograph by J. Penniman, 1838.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-3067 |
![Pennington & Cos. aerial steamship or composite balloon](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081208140018im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05100/3a05176t.gif) |
Pennington & Cos. aerial steamship or composite balloon. Lithograph by P.S. Duval, 1850.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-1354
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![The new air-ship city of new york](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081208140018im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a10000/3a10600/3a10629t.gif) |
The new air-ship "City of New York." Wood engraving In Harper's Weekly, Sept. 24, 1859. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-8009
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![Probably Orville Wright preparing for
record breaking "flag trip," Fort
Myer, Virginia, September 12, 1908](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081208140018im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a09000/3a09800/3a09890t.gif) |
Probably Orville Wright preparing for
record breaking "flag trip," Fort
Myer, Virginia, September 12, 1908 (formerly
identified as "The
Langlley airplane, Quantico, Va., 1903.")
Photo.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-7239 |
![The first flight of the Wright Bros. at Kitty Hawk, N. C., Dec. 17, 1903](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081208140018im_/http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppprs/00600/00626t.gif) |
The first flight of the Wright Bros. at Kitty Hawk, N. C., Dec. 17, 1903. Photo. By John T. Daniels.
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppprs-00626
(digital file from original) |
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