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Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851–52). American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, [1] Asian American, [2] and African American [3] settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the continent of ...
The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
The June Bug was an American "pioneer era" biplane built by the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A) in 1908 and flown by Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The aircraft was the first American airplane to fly at least 1 km in front of a crowd.
The first of 297 pioneer families and partnerships known as the "Old Three Hundred" are granted land titles in American empresario Stephen F. Austin's colony in Coahuila y Tejas. They are the first American settlers of Mexican Texas under a recently reformed Mexican law. [42] 1827: Mar 29: The town of Independence, Missouri is founded.
Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation. The aircraft is a single-place biplane design with anhedral (drooping) wings, front double elevator (a canard) and rear double rudder. It used a 12 horsepower (9 kilowatts) gasoline engine powering two pusher propellers.
While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. 2006 : America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services.
Oregon pioneer history (1806–1890) is the period in the history of Oregon Country and Oregon Territory, in the present day state of Oregon and Northwestern United States. It was the era when pioneers and mountain men , primarily of European descent, traveled west across North America to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains ...
Designed for broadcast studios in the pre-digital era, the EMT 930st is a heavyweight in both sound and build. Its direct-drive motor and massive 14-inch platter were engineered for reliability ...