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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1869/03/29 Anne L Lewis Sellers, wife of Matthew B Sellers, gives birth to a son 801 N Arlington in Baltimore, MD, to Matthew Bacon Sellers. The abandoned, 3 story, brick, Second Empire style residence was razed after a fire on 24 Feb 2023. Born
1897/00/00 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. Inventor Sellers House and Laboratory Building Grahn, KY
1907/00/00 Sellers begins building quadruplane gliders. Inventor Sellers House and Laboratory Building Grahn, KY
1908/12/28 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. Inventor Sellers House and Laboratory Building Grahn, KY Invention of the Powered Aeroplane
1911/10/00 After a local assistant is killed by an airplane's propeller, Sellers leaves Kentucky to continue his experiments in Georgia and elsewhere. Inventor Sellers House and Laboratory Building Grahn, KY
1912/00/00 President Taft appoints Matthew Bacon Sellers to the Aerodynamical Laboratory Commission. Work
1915/00/00 On the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, President Wilson appoints Matthew Sellers as one of two representatives of the Aeronautical Society of America on the newly formed Naval Consulting Board. Work
1932/04/05 Matthew Bacon Sellers dies at Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York. AIRCRAFT SCIENTIST: Was Maker of Lightest Plane and Did Valued Research With "Wind Tunnel." AN AIDE TO DANIELS IN WAR Authority on Aerodynamics Had Been on the Naval Consulting Board Since 1915. Died
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