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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 ASSOCIATION'S COPY
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 BULLETINS OF THE Aerial Experiment Association 3 Bulletin No. XIII Issued Monday, Oct. 5, 1908 THE ASSOCIATION'S COPY. BEINN BHREAGH, NEAR BADDECK, NOVA SCOTIA
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association . BULLETIN NO.XIII ISSUED MONDAY OCT. 5, 1908 . Beinn Bhreagh, Near Baddeck, Nova Scotia .
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. Editorial Notes and Comments:— Historical Notes 1–3 Meeting of Association, Sept. 21, 1908 4–5 Meeting of Association, Sept. 26, 1908 5–7 2. Hammondsport Work:— Preparation for patents on...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 1 Editorial Notes and Comments . The work of the Aerial Experiment Association was suddenly interrupted on the 17th of September, 1908, by the lamentable death of Lieut. Selfridge in the accident...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 2 2 The Aero Club of America was represented by a Committee consisting of Mr. Octave Chanute of Chicago, Chairman, Prof. A. F. Zahm of Washington, D.C., and Mr. George Oakley Totten,...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 3 3 Mr. Gardiner Bell has been appointed assistant editor of the Bulletins of the A.E.A. The Chairman on behalf of the Association, has addressed a note to the President of the...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 4 WASHINGTON MEETING SEP {Begin deleted text}t{End deleted text} T . 21, 1908. The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the A.E.A., held at 1331 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C., Sept....
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 5 2 Selfridge. We realize that in this pioneering of the air the unforeseen must occasionally be disastrous. We hope sincerely that Mr. Wright will soon recover from the serious injuries he...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 6 3 E. Selfridge to pass resolutions requiring unanimous action o {Begin deleted text} {End deleted text} n the part of the Association, Mr. E. A. Selfridge voting in the name and...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 (4) Resolved: That Mr. Charles J. Bell, President of the American Security & Trust Company, be appointed Trustee of the Aerial Experiment Association to receive and distribute the proceeds of the work...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 8 Letter from Mauro, Cameron, Lewis & Massie . To Dr. A. G. Bell, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 1908 :— Will you please forward to us a copy of the...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 9 Difference between the Wright Brothers Machine and our Hammondsport Machines . 1. The framework of the Wright Brothers machine is flexible, ours is rigid. 2. It is a necessary feature of...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 10 2 they aim. They require to combine, with the twisting action of the aeroplanes, a steering movement of the vertical rudder at the rear. Our lateral rudders by themselves accomplish the...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 11 3 5. The expression “when the two sides thereof offer different resistances to the air” suggests the idea that perhaps under some circumstances the two sides might not offer different resistances...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 16 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 12 4 at a negative angle, it would not be practicable so to do; for the aeroplane, robbed of its support below would fall, and the excess of pressure acting upon the...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 17 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 13 5 angle to the line of advance without robbing the whole of one side of the machine of support, which would be the result of twisting one side of the Wright's...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 18 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 14 6 by them, their specification declares that their invention is not limited to this particular construction, but includes (p. 3, lines 41 to 45) “Any construction whereby the angular relations of...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 19 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 15 7 in the air”: They are not “portions” of those surfaces whether “marginal” or not: They are not “supporting-surfaces” at all, for their surfaces are normally parallel to the line of...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 20 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 16 8 Some of these rudders could hardly be considered as lateral rudders. Take the vertical pair for example (ab). The function of our rudders (“balancing rudders”?) is to turn the machine...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 21 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 17 A Note by Mr. Edmund Lyon . Washington, D.C., Sept. 29, 1908 :— The Wright Brothers in their lateral control rely wholly upon varying the support of different portions of their...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 22 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 18 WORK OF BEINN BHREAGH LABORATORY: by William F. Bedwin, Superintendent. Aerodrome No. 5 . Aerodrome No. 5 has now begun to look like a real flying machine. The beading of the...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 23 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 19 2 are 2.28 meters diameter instead of 2.08 as stated. On Sept. 29, 1908, an experiment was made with these new double propellers, which are now mounted on the Dhonnas Beag...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 24 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 20 3 it in this way was, that I could get the whole material lined up more truly and at the most, all I will have to cut out will be one...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 25 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 21
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 26 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 22 1908 SEP 28 166. Dec 1908 Sept. 29 th Smd
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 27 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 23 1908 SEP 28 168 Dec 1908 Sept 29 th Smd
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 28 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 24 172 Taken 1908 Sept 29 th Smd
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 29 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 25 174 Taken 1908 Oct 2 Smd Dec 1908 Oct 2 Smd
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 30 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 26
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 31 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 27 ON THE DEATH OF SELFRIDGE. (Extract from letter from Mrs. Bell). {Begin deleted text}?{End deleted text} B addeck, Nova Scotia, Sept. 20, 1908:— I can't get over Tom's being taken. I...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 32 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 28 2 It was indeed a “brilliant coterie” as one paper said. Do anything you think best, but let the A.E.A be only those to the end, and then take some other...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 33 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 29 Bell to Curtiss . Mr. G. H. Curtiss, Hammondsport, N.Y. Washington, D.C., Sept. 29, 1908 :— I notice in the newspapers this morning that the Wright Brothers have applied through their...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 34 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 30 2 Squi e r {Begin deleted text}s{End deleted text} to go to Hammondsport and look over our machines, or detail an officer to report upon them, and express to him our...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 35 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 31 3 criticism were we to make such an experiment without adequate reason for so doing. I cannot speak too strongly on the matter. Remember Selfridge. Yours sincerely, (Signed) Alexander Graham Bell....
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 36 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 32 Bell to President Roosevelt . To The President of the United States, White House, Washington, D.C. Baddeck, N.S., Oct. 5, 1908 :—The death of Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, in the recent...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 37 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 33 WHAT THE WORK OF THE AERIAL EXPERIMENT ASSOCIATION MEANS by Carl Dienstbach. When the first Hammondsport motor-aeroplane was built, the greatest achievement in power-flight before the public was the Voisin-Farman machine....
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 38 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 34 2 But it not only increased the efficiency of the surfaces but also the lateral stability. A little reasoning will show that it shielded the marginal portions of the wings from...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 39 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 35 3 at the same time one the down-bent side tip. This is no mere theory, but the outcome of practical experience with the Wright gliders. So even the “Red Wing” possessed...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 40 of Bulletins, from October 5, 1908 to December 28, 1908 36 4 part of the framing (front control support). There may still be imperfections in the shaping of details (front ends of wings etc.) in which all the Wright Brothers ha d...
- Contributor: Bell, Gardiner H. - Wright, Orville - Selfridge, Thomas E. - Baldwin, Frederick W. - Bell, Mabel Hubbard - Curtiss, Glenn H. - McCurdy, J. A. D. - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1908-10-05