E. Pynchon - air ship Patented Nov. 14, 1893 / The National Lithographing Company, Washington, D.C. – Historic Print
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(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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E. Pynchon - air ship Patented Nov. 14, 1893 / The National Lithographing Company, Washington, D.C.
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This is the third and final sheet of drawings for Edwin Pynchon's airship, patent number 508,753, granted on November 14, 1893, and marked as Figure 7. The National Lithographing Company of Washington, D.C., printed the sheet, and the surviving copy was photographed as a glass negative. Patent drawings of this kind were the formal record that inventors submitted to the Patent Office, and airship designs drew wide public interest in the 1890s as inventors tried to make lighter-than-air and powered flight practical. The negative belongs to the Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, which is connected to the Alexander Graham Bell family.
| Created / published | [between 1893 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass. |
| Genre | Design drawings 1890-1900.Glass negatives 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Pat. no. 508,753. Sheet 3 of 3. Fig. 7. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Pynchon, Edwin--Associated objects. Airships--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,660 × 2,757 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-204686 |
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