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Drawing of a Device by Which a Person Can Fly
Inventor (and aspiring poet?) Fredfrick (sic) Merrill Shaw sent this drawing of a handheld flying machine to President Theodore Roosevelt on September 18, 1902.
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Drawing of a Device by Which a Person Can Fly

Inventor (and aspiring poet?) Fredfrick (sic) Merrill Shaw sent this drawing of a handheld flying machine to President Theodore Roosevelt on September 18, 1902.

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