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| Title | Akron's First Flying Machine |
| Description | Poised for takeoff from a fairway at Portage Country Club (the old club house is the in the background) is John R. Gammeter who owned Akron's first plane. We don't know how high he went or how far but he survived. Mr. Gammeter gained fame as an inventor. His 266 inventions included the first machine for winding golf balls with rubber thread. |
| Names | Gammeter, John R.
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| Subject | Akron Aircraft
Aviation
Airports
Airplanes
Portage Country Club
planes
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| Contributors | Summit County Historical Society
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| Date | 1906 |
| Type | Image
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| Source | SCHS-AH-2117 |
| Relation | Building Summit County
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Accession # | 2008-70-2117 |
