Thomas Scott Baldwin (June 30, 1854 – May 17, 1923) was a pioneer balloonist and U.S. Army major during World War I. He was the first American to descend...
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Baldwin Red Devil was a series of early pusher configuration aircraft employing steel tube construction. The aircraft were designed by Thomas Scott Baldwin...
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fly the Army Dirigible Number One, purchased by the US Army from Thomas Scott Baldwin in July 1908; his training partners were Lieutenants Frank P. Lahm...
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Theodore Anderson Baldwin (1839–1925), U.S. military officer during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War Thomas Scott Baldwin (1860–1923), U...
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Somerset Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854–1923), U.S. Army Major and pioneer balloonist Thomas Baldwin (philosopher) (born 1947), British philosopher Tom Baldwin (trader)...
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covered with rubberized, silvery balloon cloth provided by Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin of Hammondsport; hence the name the "Silver Dart". Its Kirkham engine...
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Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy...
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list). In early 1903, veteran balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin sought Montgomery's knowledge of aeronautics. Baldwin had also been assisting August Greth in...
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design. His longest flight on this day is 25 seconds. 23 April – Thomas Scott Baldwin makes a flight with August Greth's dirigible The California Eagle...
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(honorary) 05 Wilbur Wright (honorary) 06 Clifford B. Harmon 07 Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854–1923) 08 John Armstrong Drexel 09 Todd Shriver 10 Charles Foster...
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(interurban), a high-speed interurban railcar Baldwin Red Devil, an early series of airplanes built by Thomas Scott Baldwin South African Class 26 4-8-4, a South...
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Shriver began his association in aviation working with balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin and in 1906 was working in Curtiss's Hammondsport factory. Shriver...
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Santos-Dumont's small airships. Many airship pioneers, such as the American Thomas Scott Baldwin, financed their activities through passenger flights and public demonstration...
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engines for the California "aeronaut" Tom Baldwin, who inspired Curtiss to pursue aviation. In that same year, Baldwin's California Arrow, powered by a Curtiss...
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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays...
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Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the second-youngest Baldwin of the four Baldwin brothers...
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oscillations. In 1887, Park Van Tassel and Thomas Scott Baldwin invented a parachute in San Francisco, California, with Baldwin making the first successful parachute...
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balloonist who developed the windsock balloon. He was a protégé of Thomas Scott Baldwin. U.S. patent 2,907,875 Emergency Radio (1957) "F.G. Seyfang Dead...
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of Newport News (VA) Boat Harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later became...
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Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, PC (Can), JP, FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and Conservative politician...
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took Lhasa. The dirigible California Arrow, created and flown by Thomas Scott Baldwin and powered by a motorcycle engine built by Glenn Curtiss, became...
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original on June 27, 2021. Retrieved June 27, 2021. Reid, Scott (June 25, 2021). "Gabby Thomas runs world-best 200 at Olympic Trials". Orange County Register...
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Signal Corps Dirigible No. 1 (category Baldwin aircraft)
designed by Thomas Scott Baldwin, was the result of urgings by Chief Signal Officer Brigadier General James Allen. After seeing Baldwin demonstrate a...
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Harley Arnold (1967) J. Leland Atwood (1984) Bernt Balchen (1973) Thomas Scott Baldwin (1964) Lincoln Beachey (1966) Alan LaVern Bean (2010) Olive Ann Beech...
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experiments with a third glider in California. 1887 30 January – Thomas Scott Baldwin makes the first parachute jump in the western United States at San...
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of the Newport News boat harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later became...
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licensed in the United States. As a balloonist, he was a student of Thomas Scott Baldwin, and as an airplane pilot, of Glenn Curtiss. Mars was born on March...
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dirigible (Signal Corps Dirigible Number 1) designed by her uncle Thomas Scott Baldwin. The song tells of a young man bringing his girlfriend along on a...
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years, Farini became focused on promoting various acts including Thomas Scott Baldwin parachute jump from a balloon in 1888 at Alexandra Palace, Lily Langtry...
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exploits of parachuting balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin were replicated in 1889 by a rhesus macaque known as "the Monkey Baldwin" at English music halls. Twice...
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