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15. Richard Clayton flies 360 miles in America; Jon Wise flies 1,120 miles.
16. Leather-covered balloon built by Jules Dupuis Delcourt (France 1836).
17. William Samuel Henson (England 1842) builds a steam-powered engine.
18. Henri Giffard builds first successful dirigible (France 1852).
19. T.S.C. Lowe, America's first military aeronaut, uses balloon with telegraph for observation in Civil war (1858).
20. Aerial photography introduced by Samuel Archer King (Boston 1860). 
21. Gustave de Pontou D'Amecourt builds steam model helicopter (France 1863). 
22. Francis Herbert Wenham founds Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866). 
23. Paul Haenlein builds first gas-engined dirigible (Germany 1872).
24. Victor Tatin, a watchmaker, builds model airplane most closely resembling modern airplanes (France 1879).
25. Glider pioneers: John Joseph Montgomery (first U.S. glider pilot, 1883); Otto Lilienthal (1889); Octave Chanute (1896). 
26. Tisandier brothers build electric powered dirigible (France 1883).
27. Clement Ader claimed by French to be first man to take to air in a (steam-driven) heavier-than-air airplane (1890).
28. Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley flies a powered airplane unsuccessfully (Washington D.C., 1896).
29. Dr. Hans Wolfert builds the first gasoline-powered dirigible (Germany 1896). 
30. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds his great airship (Germany 1897). 
31. First motor-powered seaplane build by Austrian, Wilhelm Kress (1898).
32. Alberto Santos-Dumont claims to fly an airplane (Brazil 1901-1906) before the Wright Bros.

II MAN CONQUERS THE AIR - first successful flights with heavier-than-air machines.

Full page picture facing editorial text (including a statement by key person representative of era) covering survey of development of aviation from Wright brothers to first World War; start of military aviation and exploring the use of airplanes for airmail; portrayal of days when one could build an airplane in backyard or garage. 

A. The first flights. 
1. Wilbur and Orville Wright fly their plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903, opening a new era in history.
2. Captain Ferdinand Ferber (1904) builds and flies his own plane.
3. First U.S. Army Air Pilot, Major General Frank P. Lahm. 
4. James Gordon Bennett promotes international balloon races (1906).
5. Frenchman Paul Cornu builds first successful helicopter (1907).
7. Robert Exnault-Pelterie flies an airplane with air-cooled motor (France 1907_.
8. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge becomes first person to be killed in an airplane accident (Ft. Myer, Va., Sept. 17, 1908).

B. Glenn H. Curtiss starts manufacturing of airplanes
1. Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel (1909).
2. Germany's Dr. Hugo Eckner becomes leading expert on zeppelins.
3. Baronnes Raymonde de Laroche, first woman pilot (1909).
4. Glenn Martin starts manufacturing airplanes (1910). 
5. Edouard Nieuport builds first practical monoplane (France 1910).
6. Henri Fabre makes first successful seaplane flight (1910).
7. T.O.M. Sopwith starts manufacturing British airplanes.
8. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt is flown by Arch Hoxsey (1910).