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When Inventor Edison saw and applauded the Pitcairn-Cierva autogiro at Newark last September many guessed, because it was only his second visit to any airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics. But Thomas Edison, like Leonardo da Vinci, attacked the problem of aerodynamics early in his inventive career. About 1880 he devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured...
Many men of many nations have made many suggestions as to the greatest need of the art world, ranging from state museums and traveling scholarships to compulsory art education and the coming of a second Leonardo. The International Office of Museums of the League of Nations, meeting in Rome last week, decided that one of the greatest would be the invention of anhydrous glue-glue without water...
...prisoners was the "captain" of the E, Scowman Leonardo San Martino. He told Sanitation Commissioner Charles Hand that his barge was boarded by about 40 buccaneers from The Row, who deposited their contraband, threatened him and his crew with death if there was betrayal. At the E's dock, he said, another band of gunmen made the crew wait all afternoon & evening, finally help unload the liquor...
...unfair to Prince Liechtenstein of Liechtenstein to call the Dreyfus collection the "greatest private collection in the world," but Duveen Brothers got a good deal for their money. The collection is notably strong in sculpture: Verrocchio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Mino da Fiesole, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Andrea Riccio. Painters include: Giovanni Bellini, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Ghirlandaio. There is also a collection of medals and small bronzes which art critics call irreplaceable...
History. First recorded experiments with helicopters were made by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who made four models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner...