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When the manliest of men maintained mannish mustaches. Print showing a batter standing at home plate with catcher and umpire awaiting the pitch; view is from the pitcher’s mound, with grandstand visible in the background. – Library Of Congress + Source: Baseball Poster No. 281 :: 1895 :: Library Of Congress

Design drawings for a man-powered flying machine with manually controlled wings entitled, “Vélocipède aérien,” proposed by Jean Jacques Bourcart, Paris, August, 1866. –Library Of Congress + Source: Design Drawings for a Man-Powered Flying Machine <1866> :: Tissander Collection :: Library Of Congress + Related: • Electric Powered Airship Designed By Albert and Gaston Tissandier <1883> • Balloon Design Drawing :: Louis Panafieu • Flugmaschine. Erfunden von Jacob Degen in Wien <1807>

Design drawings show several views of an electric powered airship designed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier, which made an ascension October 8, 1883 from Auteil, France. – Library Of Congress + Source: Electric Powered Airship Designed By Albert and Gaston Tissandier :: Library Of Congress + Related: • Design Drawings for a Man-Powered Flying Machine <1866> • Balloon Design Drawing :: Louis Panafieu • Flugmaschine. Erfunden von Jacob Degen in Wien <1807>

Gotta say, Flugmachine has a certain ad-like ring to it, “Flugmaschine: It’s what makes a man-powered flying machine a Volkswagen.” (This begs the question – where’s the flying machine I was promised to have by now?) Technical illustration shows elevation and horizontal section of a man-powered flying machine constructed and tested unsuccessfully by Swiss watchmaker Jakob Degen living in Vienna in the early 1800s. A pair of heart-shaped, braced and movable wings are operated by arms and legs. – Library Of Congress + Source: Flugmaschine. Erfunden von Jacob Degen in Wien (1807) :: Tissandier Collection :: Library of Congress +...

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