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...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...
Sources: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Park Service; NASA; How We Invented the Airplane, by Orville Wright, 1988 edition (Dover); First Flight, by T.A. Heppenheimer, 2003 (Wiley); On Great White Wings, by Fred E.C. Culick and Spencer Dunmore, 2001 (Hyperion...
...that major hostilities haven't exactly ceased, it looks as if I'm headed for mothballs. I'll be lucky if I end up at the Smithsonian next to Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress...
...This is an amazing thing to happen,” said John L. Kohl, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, describing the dual coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which precipitated geomagnetic storms, radiation storms and radio blackouts...
Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA have been gathering “wonderful data” from the solar bursts, according to Kohl...