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rare 1913 SEAPLANE NEW YORK AIRBOAT ALFRED LAWSON BROCHURE AIRCRAFT
Rare 1913 Fly Magazine publisher Alfred Lawson promotional item
NEW YORK\'S FIRST AIRBOAT COMMUTER
THE WORLD MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 16, 1913
Printed circa 1913
VINTAGE 1910\'s ITEM - NOT A REPRINT
1 Page - SIZE: 7 1/2 x 10 inches / 21 x 27 cm
The back is blank making this appear to be a promotional offprint by Alfred Lawson. This item came with other Alfred Lawson items.
CONDITION: GOOD, tape repair on back at fold and light general aging.
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Alfred William Lawson (1869 – 1954) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.
He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill. He founded the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build military training aircraft and later the Lawson Airplane Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to build airliners.
The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 \"Midnight Liner\" during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success.
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