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Richard Pearse. 2 January 2009.
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- Richard Pearse. 2 January 2009.
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- TAPUHI
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Shows Richard Pearse, the New Zealand farmer and inventor performed pioneering experiments in aviation. Pearse appears to have successfully flown and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright brothers though this claim is controversial. He is shown directing a horse-drawn plough with one hand while he reads a book on how birds fly with the other. Above his head is a flying machine. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
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- Date created
- 2009
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- http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23052754
- Related subjects
- Pearse, Richard William, 1877-1953 / Air pilots / Inventors / Flying-machines
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