Economic Literacy. Social Studies: Grade-1

Antonio Rosetti (born 1819)

[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left]

Samuel F. B. Morse House, Poughkeepsie, New York (perspective and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis (American, New York 1803–1892 West Orange, New Jersey)

[Worker repairing telegraph line?]

H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line

One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than... more

Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865

One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than... more

Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858

One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than... more

Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865

One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than... more

Patent Drawing for John Deere's Improvement in Plows

Utility Patent Drawings

New York City--The Morse celebration at the Academy of Music, June 10th--Professor Morse manipulating his signature to the message telegraphed by Miss Sadie E. Cornwell

Drawing by Alexander Graham Bell, 1876

Morse apparatus and alphabet

Print shows apparatus for sending and receiving coded telegraph messages, with the alphabet and numbers in "Morse code."

[Thomas Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left]

Patent Drawing for T. A. Edison's Incandescing Electric Lamp

Utility Patent Drawings

Samuel F. B. Morse from "Gately's World's Progress. A general history of the earth's construction and of the advancement of mankind ... Edited by C. E. Beale. Édition de luxe"

This image has been taken from scan 000350 from volume 01 of "Gately's World's Progress. A general history of the earth's construction and of the advancement of mankind ... Edited by C. E. Beale. Édition de lu... more

[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in his mouth]

Samuel F. B. Morse, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as ... more

[Thomas Edison, half-length portrait, facing front] / J.M. White & Co.

[Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length]

[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]

[Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop]

[Wilbur Wright, age 30, seated facing right, half-length side view]

[Childhood portraits of Wilbur Wright]

[Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator]

[Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

"Wireless telegraphy" / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows George F. Hoar sitting on the U.S. Capitol dome using a telegraph to send a "wireless" message "Keep it up! We are with you!" across a body of water to the insurgent forces fighting against A... more

[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, by window]

Telegraph Co., Washington Branch, Mch. 25, telegram, Dutch standard still safe

Cartoon shows a man, possibly the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry O. Havemeyer or the head of American Crystal Sugar Company, Henry Thomas Oxnard, leaving the Western Union Telegraph office ... more

[Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Wilbur Wright, age 38, head and shoulders, about 1905; one of the earliest published photographs of him]

[Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache]

Thomas Edison and his original dynamo, Edison Works, Orange, N.J., U.S.A.

Thomas Edison, standing, full-length portrait, in front of engine.

Orville, Wilbur, and Katherine Wright, with others

O. Wright flying [in his airplane, crowd on field]

[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progress of one of his tetrahedral kites]

The collapsed Wright airplane photographed just after it struck the ground...

The collapsed Wright airplane photographed just after it struck the ground. At Fort Meyer [sic], on Sept. 17, at a height of 75 feet, on a turn, one of the new nine foot propeller blades was broken. The machine... more

Orville Wright

Bystanders help extricate the mortally wounded US Army (USA) Lieutenant (LT) Thomas Selfridge from the wreck of the Wright Brothers Flyer after its crash at Fort Myer, Virginia (VA). At right, several men attend the injuries of Orville Wright, who lies on the ground at their feet

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Myer, Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Pub... more

The Wright airplane of 1909 at Ft. Myer, Va.

WRIGHT BROTHERS AIRPLANE, ETC. TYPE A PLANE AT FORT MYER

Wilbur Wright in flight from Governor's Island

Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1st flight over water

Orville Wright at start of flight, Fort Meyer [i.e. Myer], Va.

Airplane on ground.

WRIGHT FLIGHTS, FORT MYER, VA, JULY 1909. FIRST ARMY FLIGHTS; WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT, CHARLIE TAYLOR; PUTTING PLANE ON LAUNCHING RAIL

WRIGHT FLIGHTS, FORT MYER, VA, JULY 1909. FIRST ARMY FLIGHTS; HANGAR, ORVILLE WRIGHT, RIGHT

Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm of the United States Signal Corps making the world's record flight at Fort Myer, on July 27--The aeroplane made fifty miles at a speed of about forty miles an hour

The Wright Brothers test fly their aircraft on Fort Myer's parade field. This series of test flights resulted in the Army purchasing its first aircraft. In the first flight, Sept. 9, 1908, Orville Wright kept the plane aloft 71 seconds. The second flight resulted in a crash that left Wright severely cut and bruised and his passenger, Army LT. Thomas Selfridge dead -- the first powered-aviation fatality. (Exact date shot UNKNOWN)

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Myer, Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Pub... more

[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]

[Orville seated in Wright airplane with Albert B. Lambert before takeoff; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio]

American and British linemen constructing telegraph and telephone line. Near Contay, France; 7/6/1918

British Photographs of World War I

A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, leaving the final pull to be exerted by the workers. Hine. Oct. 1915. Location: Colorado.

Orville Wright

Alexander Graham Bell at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the 1876 invention of the telephone, Boston, Mass., 1916 / photo by Richard W. Sears.

[Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone walking together]

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]

Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, shows the old and the new in telephones. That in his right hand is a model of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone through which sounds were first electronically transmitted in 1875. The larger apparatus near his right hand is the artificial lung and larynx, which enables people with paralyzed vocal cords to talk again. 12/30

[Woman with original steel plow made by John Deere in Grand Detour, Illinois in 1838, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]

[Samuel F.B. Morse, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing front, posed with a camera and glass plate negatives]

Laboratory of Alexander Graham Bell, Boston, Massachusetts

STORY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON

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