O. Lilienthal - flying machine Patented Aug. 20, 1895. – Historic Print
![O. Lilienthal - flying machine Patented Aug. 20, 1895., [1895?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/86/86862e308151-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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A window into the past: O. Lilienthal - flying machine Patented Aug. 20, 1895., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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O. Lilienthal - flying machine Patented Aug. 20, 1895.
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A glass negative of the drawings for Otto Lilienthal's flying machine, sheet one of two, showing Figures I through III of U.S. Patent 544,816, issued August 20, 1895. Lilienthal, a German engineer, studied the flight of birds and built hang gliders that he flew from artificial hills near Berlin, making well over a thousand glides in the early 1890s. He patented his designs to protect them, and his published work strongly influenced later aviation pioneers. He died in 1896 after a glider crash. This copy belongs to the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs, which reflects the family's wide interest in flight.
| Created / published | [1895?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass. |
| Genre | Design drawings 1890-1900.Glass negatives 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Pat. no. 544,816. Sheet 1 of 2. Figs. I, II, and III. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Lilienthal, Otto,--1848-1896--Associated objects. Gliders--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,317 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-204689 |
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