Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...000th patent was Simon Lake, inventor and pioneer in submarine experiment. His original submarine, the Argonaut, is still in the yard of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., of Bridgeport. His latest, No. 1,500,000, is described under SCIENCE...
Orville Wright, pioneer inventor of heavier-than-air machines D.Eng...
...operation of seaplanes is the soaking up of water by the wooden hull of a flying-boat. This means rapid deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan...
Born in Colesville, N.Y., in 1855, of sturdy Pioneer stock, she displayed early those qualities that later made her justly famed. At the age of five she cared for her younger brothers, in order to ease her mother's heavy household burdens...
...influence in national politics has been pervasive and honorable. A pioneer in the Conservation movement, he is responsible for the existence of the Yosemite National Park. Two years before Roosevelt's Conservation Conference of the Governors in 1908, he urged Roosevelt to take this course. In one particular instance, he redeemed the national honor, as Secretary of the American Copyright League in 1888, waging the long fight that eventually led to the adoption of an American copyright law that protected foreign authors from the pirating of their books in these United States...