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Description:: Notes promising payment made to Normand Chandler from Lee de Forest for 3 separate payments of $100, $100, and $300. Lee de Forest called himself "the father of radio" and did a lot of work on audio recording used in motion pictures. Norman Chandler was a publisher for LA Times.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Frank Austin and Heard McClellan wear parachute packs as they stand facing an airplane in an airfield. In 1926, the Aero Corporation of California was formed. Jack Frye was its President. The corporation operated out of an airfield along Western Avenue, between 94th and 104th Streets. This image appears with the photo page "Camera Reveals Taylor and Grange on Friendly Terms to Last," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 27, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, inventor Leon F. Douglass poses with his submarine camera while aboard the Santa Rosa. He sits side-saddle on a bench. The base of the camera rests in front of him on the bench. A long tube extends vertically from the camera and out-of-frame. Leon F. Douglass holds onto the apparatus with both hands as he looks to camera. A deck of the Santa Rosa stretches across the background.
Date:: May, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Chaffey Founders Paid Homage at Ceremony," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sept 1935: 8.
Date:: September 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Notes promising payment made to Normand Chandler from Lee de Forest for 3 separate payments of $100, $100, and $200. Lee de Forest called himself "the father of radio" and did a lot of work on audio recording used in motion pictures. Norman Chandler was a publisher for LA Times.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, inventor Leon F. Douglass stands on a set of stairs aboard the Santa Rosa. The stairs span 2 of the ship's decks. Leon F. Douglass stands midway up the steps and holds his invention, a submarine camera. The camera extends from the top of Leon F. Douglass' shoulder and down towards the lower deck.
Date:: May, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Frank Austin and Heard McClellan wear parachute packs as they stand facing an airplane in an airfield. In 1926, the Aero Corporation of California was formed. Jack Frye was its President. The corporation operated out of an airfield along Western Avenue, between 94th and 104th Streets. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the photo spread titled "Camera Reveals Taylor and Grange on Friendly Terms to Last," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 27, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Phillip Huyssen poses with an Ingo-bike, a type of eccentric-hub scooter he invented with his brother Prescott. Eccentric-hub scooters are powered by bouncing up and down on the platform to move the off-centered back wheel.
Date:: January 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Antoine Gazda, European inventor of defensive armament.
Date:: May 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Charles M. Fuller, inventor of the new Fuller Gold Dredge. Here he is smoking a cigar while standing next to his new giant machine.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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