Frame of aerodrome A, January 31, 1900 – Historic Reproduction
![Frame of aerodrome A, January 31, 1900, [published 1911] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7d/7d096b7462a0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Frame of aerodrome A, January 31, 1900 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Frame of aerodrome A, January 31, 1900
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The frame shown here belongs to Aerodrome A, the heavier-than-air machine that Samuel Pierpont Langley's team was building at the Smithsonian, and the record dates the photograph to January 31, 1900. The view is of the bare structure, with the framework that would carry the wings, engine, and launch apparatus exposed for the camera. Langley, the Smithsonian's secretary, died in 1906, and this halftone appeared as plate 46 in the 1911 memoir on his mechanical flight experiments, published to document that work. Looking at the frame itself shows how much of early aviation depended on lightweight metal and wood construction.
| Created / published | [published 1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, vol. 27, no. 3. Langley memoir on mechanical flight. Part II. 1897-1903 / by Samuel Pierpont Langley. Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1911, pl. 46. |
| Subjects | Airplane equipment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,122 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143375 |
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