Sellers House and Laboratory Building
- Also Known As: Blakemore
- Address: SR 1644
- Vicinity: 2 miles S of Grahn on State Route 1644, 1400 feet SE on a private dirt road
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1894/00/00 | Blakemore is built with a high gabled tin roof allowing for two-and-a-half stories on an almost identical front and back with a fourth story under the roof. | |||||
| 1897/00/00 | Matthew Bacon Sellers II | Inventor | Matthew Sellers experiments with a blower to observe the dynamic forces exerted upon various shapes in a moving current of air, recording the lift and drag characteristics of the shapes tested. | |||
| 1907/00/00 | Matthew Bacon Sellers II | Inventor | Sellers begins building quadruplane gliders. | |||
| 1908/12/28 | Matthew Bacon Sellers II | Inventor | At field near Blakemore, Matthew B Sellers flies a quadruplane glider fitted with a 7hp engine and retracting wheels. It is the first time in aviation history retracting wheels are used on an airplane. | Invention of the Powered Aeroplane | ||
| 1911/10/00 | Matthew Bacon Sellers II | Inventor | After a local assistant is killed by an airplane's propeller, Sellers leaves Kentucky to continue his experiments in Georgia and elsewhere. |
| Particulars for Sellers House and Laboratory Building: | |
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| Area of Significance | Invention |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Criteria | Person |
| Owner | Private |
| Historic Use | Research facility |
| Area of Significance | Science |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Sight Category | Site |
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