Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray, Army aeronaut, at Scot Field, Ill., who yesterday broke the world's record for altitude in a free balloon when ascended 41,000 feet, which is a distance of nearly eight miles. The...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the supermarine seaplane, piloted by flying officer Henry R. D. Waghorn, at the start of its record breaking flight at Calshot, England, which won for England, the Schneider Trophy. Squadron leader Augustus...
Text on back of photo: 'Photo shows aviator Pescara of France in his helicopter in which he broke world's record for helicopter flying. He flew for duration of 16 minutes 45 seconds, breaking by eleven minutes the old record of five minutes made...
Text from back of photo (caption in fragments - some pieces missing): 'Photo shows L. to R. (next to officer) Mrs. Roy L. Mitchell, Roy L. Mitchell, Mrs. Byron K. Newcomb, Byron K. Newcomb, and Eddie Stinson, designer of the plane used in breaking...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of photo: 'Pilot Renato Conati, on April 11th, claimed a world altitude record for airplanes with a flight of 49,200 feet. The recognized world record of 44,819 feet is held by Georges Lamoine of France. Photo shows Donati (center)...
Text from back of photo: 'Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brien, St. Louis fliers, are tuning up their endurance plane to break record now held by the Hunter brothers of Sparta, Ill., which is 553 hours, 41 minutes. Prior to the Hunter boys feat...
Noon hour scene at the Commodore Music Shop where many record collectors spend their lunch hour. Business men, doctors, lawyers, writers etc. find a common ground in jazz record collecting.
For photographing the human voice and reproducing it, not as a picture but as the actual sound of the voice itself, a new device known as the Pallo-Photo-Phone has been perfected by Charles A. Hoxie of the General Electric Company. It is regarded...
Petit Ledger section (p. 1-25): Record of accounts between E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and its employees, pensioners, and other individuals from 1802 to 1806. Includes itemized accounts of pay and other expenses of DuPont employees. Boarding...
One of the ingenious instrument panels watching over manufacture of nylon yarn in the DuPont Company's plants. Precision is maintained by controls which record every activity. Here lights, chimes and varied colored lines traced on charts record the...
Text from back of image: 'The above photo shows Captain W.R. Gheradi, new aide to Secretary of Navy Wilbur, in the seat of his seaplane, after flying from Hampton Roads to Washington to interview his chief. Tuesday May 6-24. Capt. W.R. Gheradi will...
Text from back of photo: "Three Soviet fliers and a Soviet plane designer, are shown in Moscow, before taking off on a projected 7,000-mile non-stop flight across the wastes of Siberia. The plane was a huge Soviet-built monoplane, with fuel tanks...
Text from back of image: "Mrs. Oliver Atkey (above), Britain's leading woman aviator recently created a new record by piloting a De Haviland air taxi with a passenger from Lee to Edgeware England, including the taking off and landing through...
Text from back of photo: "Eighteen Year Old Girl Breaks Parachute Jumping Record. Miss Phoebe J. Fairgrave sets a new world altitude women's record for parachute jumping. She dropped from a height of 15,200 feet, or nearly 3 miles, from an...
Text from back of photo: 'After flying 5,340 miles from Cranwell, England, to Walvis Bay, South Africa, for a new world long-distance non-stop record, squadron leader U.M. Gayford and flight lieutenant G.E. Nicholetts are welcomed home [by]...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows a new helicopter invented by the Spanish engineer Don Juan Dela Cierva and called the autogiro, while it was being tried out recently at the Cuatro Vientos Airdrome in France when it made the record breaking...
Table of Contents: A cook's delight; A hit record in data storage; A plow in a jug; Long lasting bubbles; Starblast gets the nod; It's plumb easy; Hold back the sea; Footnotes on a carpet triumph; A unique edge in cutting performance; Tunnel...
Table of Contents: DNA fingerprints nap an elusive culprit; Message in a model; The king of fishes; A glowing introduction; The pride of Spartanburg; Eastward, into the record book; Signposts on the kylin; Hey, pop, look at me now; Exploring new...
