Chester Melvin Vaniman (October 30, 1866 – July 2, 1912) was an American aviator and photographer who specialized in panoramic images. He shot images from...

quite common in the US at fairgrounds or exhibitions. The American Melvin Vaniman constructed big tent hangars in France particularly for the French army...

hangar. Wasting no time, Wellman launched later that day with mechanic Melvin Vaniman and navigator Felix Riesenberg in an attempt to reach the pole. Unfortunately...

transatlantic airship flight, to be headed by Melvin Vaniman. In July 1912, the airship Akron exploded, and Vaniman and his crew were killed. During his lifetime...

Pictorialist and postcard publisher Robert Vere Scott; and by adventurers like Melvin Vaniman, and archaeologist Hiram Bingham III. Bingham, having first seen Machu...

Melvin Vaniman and Kiddo...

Air Force . An attempt at the first transatlantic flight fails when Melvin Vaniman's dirigible Akron explodes shortly after takeoff, 500 feet (150 meters)...

Panoramic image of Haleiwa Hotel in 1902, by Melvin Vaniman...

United States) Vanguard Model 2C Vanguard Model 2D Omniplane (Melvin Vaniman) Vaniman Triplane 1bis (Ibbs "Dutch" Vantuil) Vantuil Flying Dutchman (László...

food on the sides of the envelope. Others, such as Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman, set their sights on loftier goals, attempting two polar flights in...

off Atlantic City, New Jersey, killing all five, including its owner, Melvin Vaniman. 5 0 4 September 1912 Near Budapest, Hungary, a military airship was...

feet) – a new world record. American aeronaut and aerial photographer Melvin Vaniman flies a steel-tube-frame triplane he designed and built himself a distance...

turn of the century by such photographers as the American adventurer Melvin Vaniman, who popularised the medium in Australia where it was taken up by both...

Wellman and his crew of five (including aeronaut and aerial photographer Melvin Vaniman) depart Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the dirigible America to attempt...

Panorama of Circular Quay from a ship's mast, 1903, by Melvin Vaniman...

launched from Atlantic City, New Jersey on 15 October 1910. The engineer Melvin Vaniman sent one of the first aerial radio transmissions when he urged the launch...

of the first female college presidents in the U.S.; born in Virden Melvin Vaniman, aviator and photographer who specialized in panoramic images U.S. Geological...

visit to Australia of noted American aerial panoramic photographer Melvin Vaniman in 1903-1904, began taking pictures in a similar panoramic format, before...

the five crew members on board including pioneer aerial photographer Melvin Vaniman. Denmark established an army air corps to complement the naval air corps...

American panoramic photographer Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) popularised the format in Australia. Significant in Scott's case, Vaniman was in Adelaide in 1904....

The Dyke, with the Basin on the right, the rail-yard in the foreground and the pump house to the left, 1904 (aerial photograph by Melvin Vaniman)...

and, decades later, the independent nation of Cameroon. Piloted by Melvin Vaniman, the dirigible balloon Akron (not to be confused with the 1930s airship...

Johann Degotardi and Bernard Holtermann in the 1870s, John Harvey and Melvin Vaniman in the early 20th century, and Harold Cazneaux and Sam Hood in the 1930s;...