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[[stamped]] FROM THE HAROLD & MARVEL MOREHOUSE AVIATION PIONEERS COLLECTION NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM [[/stamped]] THE THOMAS BROTHERS Pioneer Aeronautical Engineers - Plane Builders [[image]] WILLIAM T. THOMAS Born: Rosario, Argentine Republic September 18, 1887 OLIVER W. THOMAS Born: Rosario, Argentine Republic November 4, 1882 The Thomas Brothers pioneer aviation biographies should be recorded jointly because their early aviation engineering and plane building accomplishments were as a team. After receiving elementary schooling in Argentina, William Thomas attended Dulwich Preparatory School at Dulwich College in Great Britain from 1900 to 1904, then the Central Technical College, London, where he graduated in Civil and Mechanical Engineering in 1908. During this period he also served an apprenticeship with the British Westinghouse Company at Trafford, England. While in college and serving his apprenticeship William became very interested in aeronautics, endeavoring to learn all he could about the new science, and was one of the founding members of the Aero Club of Great Britain and Ireland early in 1