Stanley Yale Beach
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Stanley Yale Beach was a wealthy aviation pioneer, who was an early financier of Gustave Whitehead, who claimed to have made powered controlled flight before the Wright brothers. He was among the firs
Stanley Yale Beach
Wayne Cars, by Wayne Automobile Co., Stanley Yale Beach was a buyer of their first model in 1903
Antoinette monoplanes, built by Antoinette Company, similar to Beach's design with foldable wings.
Whitehead's Albatross-type glider
Alfred Ely Beach
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Alfred Ely Beach was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City S
Stanley Yale Beach
…editor and co-proprietor of Scientific American, and Margaret A. Gilbert, members of the Yale family. Beach's paternal grandfather was patent lawyer Alfred Ely Beach, who is most known for his invention of New York's first subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, and for his patent agency Munn & Co., with customers…
Scientific American in 1845, a magazine that was a major force for the diffusion of innovations during the 19th century
Munn & Co. in 1859, patent office headquarters in Washington, next to the United States Patent Office
Broadway underground railway (1872), New York, next to City Hall
Socialites waiting in the Beach Pneumatic Transit station under Broadway