Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae.
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1922
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 10,008 × 7,752 pixels
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"Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae." (1922). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Close-up_of_a_Post_Office_Dept._mail_plane_equipped_with_the_new_experimental_radio_apparatus_with_which_the_Dept._hopes_soon_to_make_possible_night_flying._The_little_lead_fish_at_the_LCCN2016891611.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 275648.
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