Description: Portrait of inventor Thomas Alva Edison, ca. 1920 - 1929. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. He gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00738
Subjects: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology;
 

Description: Thomas Edison, a native of Milan, Ohio, invented and patented this phonograph. It was Edison's favorite invention. He created what he called the "Speaking phonograph" while working on improvements to Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1877. He did not market the machine for another ten years, however, so that he could concentrate on his next invention, the electric light. This oak and metal tabletop phonograph was made between 1915 and 1930 and measures 19.68 by 15.74 by 14.96 inches (50 by 40 by 38 cm). Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio. He gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1480_1164701_001
Subjects: Science and Technology; Inventions; Inventors; Phonograph; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Places: Milan (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This record was made by Thomas Edison to be played on the phonograph, which he invented. The record is held in a cardboard cylinder that stands 4.6 inches (11.7 cm) high and is 2.44 inches (6.2 cm) in diameter. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio. He gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1480_1164707_002
Subjects: Science and Technology; Inventions; Inventors; Phonograph; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Places: Milan (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Perry Okey operating the "Okey Auto #2" in 1899 from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photograph Collection. A typed caption on the back reads "Okey Auto #2, the first one Perry Okey operated on Columbus streets. Picture was taken in spring of 1899 at Long and Fourth by Geo. Smith who ran a dancing school there. Okey made only one of this model -- it had one-cylinder engine, would go 25 miles per hour. He drove it two years between East Side home and city elec plan on west bank of Scioto where he had workshop on 3rd floor. Note Okey's resemblance to the young FDR." Perry Okey (1873-1963) was a resident of Columbus, Ohio. After working for the Columbus Waterworks beginning in 1897, he went on to operate the Okey Auto Company and later the Okey Motor Car Company in the early 1900s. He was an active inventor whose patents included an automobile self-starter, a saw-cutting machine, a fluid-density meter, a computing device, an apparatus for feeding lines, a refrigerating system, a lens grinding machine, and more. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F03_05_01
Subjects: Automobiles--Ohio--History; Automotive technology; Transportation; Inventors; Science and Technology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 8.5" by 11" (21.59 by 27.94 cm) image depicts Thomas Alva Edison visiting his birthplace in Milan, Ohio on August 11, 1923. The Edison family moved to Canada at the end of the American Revolution with others who had taken the side of the British king rather than the American colonists. In the 1830s, the family was forced to flee Canada due to Edison's father Samuel's participation in the unsuccessful Papineau-MacKenzie Rebellion against the Canadian government. Samuel and Nancy Elliot Edison and their children settled first in Milan, Ohio and then in Port Huron, Michigan. Edison (1847-1931) gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. As a boy, Edison was boxed in the ears by an angry train conductor after he destroyed a box car when his science experiments exploded. Edison pointed to the incident as the cause of his loss of hearing, which worsened throughout his life. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1495_1160563_001
Subjects: Science and Technology; Daily Life; Architecture; Inventors; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Houses
Places: Milan (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting inventor Alexander Winton driving a Winton automobile, manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio. The picture is possibly of a failed attempt made by Winton made in May 1901 to drive cross country. Beginning in San Francisco he crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains, but stopped in Nevada due to the difficult desert terrain. Alexander Winton was born in Grangemouth, Scotland, on June 20, 1860 and died on June 21, 1932. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02668
Subjects: Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Automobiles
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke and the crew of the B-17 "Mission Mistress" a couple of days after returning to England. Their plane was shot down over northern France, and they traded goods with the Canadians stationed where they made their emergency landing. The guns in this picture are some of the items for which they traded. This crew belonged to the 410th Bomb Squadron of the 94th Bombardment Group in the Eighth Air Force. From left to right, those in the front row are: radio operator Henry B. Lence; bombardier Allen E. Silva; top turret gunner Raymond E. Cabel; tail gunner Manuel Grant; and waist gunner Norman Ratliff. Those in the back row, from left to right, are: waist gunner Clifford H. Eby; co-pilot Vernon R. Kreger; pilot Raymond J. Graves; Parke; and ball turret gunner Roland G. Attaway. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F02_016
Subjects: Military missions; 410th Bombardment Squadron; Surprise (Military science); Exchange
Places: Rougham (England)
 

Description: Six 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm) photographs document a homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, who invented the polio vaccine. Hope joked with the crowd that Armstrong was adjusting well to life on Earth after his space visit, "but he keeps throwing his shoes out the window and eating toothpaste," referring to the system of trash disposal on early flights and the practice of packaging astronauts' food in tubes. Neil A. Armstrong (b. 1930), the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta. He received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. For the next 17 years he worked for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he was a project pilot on many pioneering high-speed aircraft. Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962 and was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, which was launched on March 16, 1966. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3101_3737076_007
Subjects: Science and Technology; Arts and Entertainment; Celebrations; Parades & processions; Hope, Bob, 1903-2003; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Flight; Aeronautics; Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-1993; Astronauts
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting Charles F. Kettering with a Buick automobile, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Kettering is credited with inventing the electric ignition and self-starter for the automobile. He was one of the founders of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, which became the Delco Products Division of General Motors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01161
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Automotive technology; Automobile industry; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photography--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a painting titled "Dawn of a New Light," which depicts inventor Thomas Edison at different life stages. The painting was created by Ohio artist Howard Chandler Christy in 1950 and hangs in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03333
Subjects: Painters -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A group of test pilots for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Columbus, Ohio on the flight line, ca. 1940 - 1945. The Columbus plant was established in 1940 when the Curtiss-Wright Corporation expanded to meet the increased demand for military aircraft during World War II. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00703
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "PORTSMOUTH - Domestic Science Class of Sciotoville School, one of the basement rooms modernized by the W.P.A." This is a photograph of several students in a science class at Sciotoville School in Portsmouth, Ohio. Sciotoville School was built by the WPA in 1937-38. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_004_001
Subjects: Classrooms; Domestic science; Sciotoville (Portsmouth, Ohio); Schools--Ohio; Students; Teachers; Science--Study and teaching; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)