Army Aircraft began to take Modern form with this Burgess Tractor of 1913 – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Army Aircraft began to take Modern form with this Burgess Tractor of 1913. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Army Aircraft began to take Modern form with this Burgess Tractor of 1913
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This 1913 Burgess tractor biplane carries its propeller at the front, pulling the machine through the air rather than pushing it from behind. The Burgess Company of Marblehead, Massachusetts, was one of several American firms building aircraft for the military in the years before the First World War, when the Army's Signal Corps was only beginning to buy airplanes. Specific details of this airframe's model and service are not confirmed here. Still, the picture shows the basic layout that would soon define military aviation: a front-mounted engine, an open cockpit, and a light wooden wing structure braced with wires.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110040 |
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