Matthew Bacon Sellers II
American
Lineage
- Father Matthew Bacon Sellers I
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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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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