• Broken stopwatch with hand pointed at nine-minute mark.
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    Wilbur and Orville Wright inaugurated the aerial age with their historic first powered airplane flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. The brothers used this stopwatch to time their flights.
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Eric Long
Date Created
02/18/2016
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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Aviation; Memorabilia; People; Popular Culture
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