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They vanished in the South Pacific on June 2, 1937.
Pan American Airways navigator
Princess Löwenstein-Wertheim in flight clothes before her ill-fated transatlantic flight.
Ruth Elder poses in a publicity still for Universal’s “Winged Horseman” (1929) while holding a model evocative of her transatlantic Stinson.
This illustration is the frontispiece to The Mariner’s Mirrour, one of the most famous collections of sea charts from the 16th century.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei competed for two longitude prizes in the 17th century.
This rendition shows how a future Galileo satellite will look.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei created this device to calculate the motions of Jupiter’s moons.
In 1642, for a Dutch longitude prize, Galileo proposed both an astronomical solution and an accurate sea clock—the first clock ever to have a pendulum.
