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Two men flying in the helicopter designed by George de Bothezat.

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who is best known for his work in the field of electricity. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. He is credited with the development of many important devices and technologies, including the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. Edison was a highly successful and influential inventor, with more than 1,000 patents to his name. He was also a pioneering entrepreneur, founding companies such as General Electric and the Edison Electric Light Company. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

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1923
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Navy Ship CL 105 Dayton - Public domain photogrpaph

ACH-53E helicopter, with Marine Aviation Weapons and

U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron

Thoughts of home. [Portrait of two men in front of a tree, oil derricks in background.]

Massachusetts National Guard soldiers with 20th Special

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, operated by Soldiers

[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 1783]

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 31, Aircraft Assembly Hangar, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Two parked US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry, at Comanche Base, located near Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The AH-64 in the foreground is IFOR marked and the crew is tying down the rotor blades. The 6th Cavalry is in Bosnia-Herzegovina participating in Operation Joint Endeavor, which is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Vertical stabilizer inspection. Women inspectors are shown inspecting the vertical stabilizers upon receipt from the sub-contractor prior to installation on "Vengeance" dive bombers made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

A UH-60 Black Hawk with the 1-150th Assault Helicopter

A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1W Cobra helicopter with Special

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