Glenn Curtiss
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles.
As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships.
In 1908, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, to build flying machines. Curtiss made the first officially witnessed flight in North America, won a race at the world's first international air meet in France, and made the first long-distance flight in the United States.
His contributions in designing and building aircraft led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
His company built aircraft for the U.S. Army and Navy, and, during the years leading up to World War I, his experiments with seaplanes led to advances in naval aviation.
Curtiss civil and military aircraft were predominant in the interwar and World War II eras.
Birth and early career
Glenn Curtiss was born in Hammondsport, New York's Finger Lakes district, in 1878. Lua Curtiss née Andrews' mother, and his father, Frank Richmond Curtiss, a harness maker who had arrived in Hammondsport with Glenn's grandparents in 1876. Claudius G. Curtiss, a Methodist Episcopal priest, and Ruth Bramble were among Glenn's paternal grandparents. Rutha Luella, Glenn Curtiss' younger sister, was born in Hammondsport.
Despite the fact that his formal education lasted only to eighth grade, his early interest in mechanics and electronics was evident at his first work with the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company in Rochester, New York. He invented a stencil machine at the factory and later developed a basic camera to photograph photography.
