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In 1903 the NYT also reported: "PROF. BELL'S FLYING MACHINE.; Expects to Have It in Successful Operation Before Summer Passes" - https://www.nytimes.com/1903/0

In 1903 the NYT also reported: "PROF. BELL'S FLYING MACHINE.; Expects to Have It in Successful Operation Before Summer Passes" - https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/12/archives/prof-bells-flying-machine-expects-to-have-it-in-successful.html?searchResultPosition=13 https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/12/archives/prof-bells-flyin... and "ANOTHER AIRSHIP MADE; Emile Berliner of Washington Says He Has Invented One. Asserts It Has Been Flown with Success -- An Aeroplane Built on the Buzzard Plan." - https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/30/archives/another-airship-made-emile-berliner-of-washington-says-he-has.html?searchResultPosition=11 https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/30/archives/another-airship-...

OJFord 5y ago
Interesting they wrote 'aeroplane' there, when and why did Americans start using 'airplane' instead I wonder? Hadn't really thought about it but I suppose I assumed the difference had always existed, like 'cell' vs. 'mobile' phones say.
- eesmith 5y ago
  NYT search has 29 results for "aeroplane" between Jan 1, 1890 and Jan 1, 1903. > TO FLY FROM PIKE'S PEAK.; W.F. Felts Tries His New Aeroplane at Different Altitudes. [Aug. 4, 1897] (followed soon by SNOWSTORM ON PIKE'S PEAK.; W. B. Felts Did Not Attempt His Aeroplane Flight Yesterday.) > Flying Motor Cars [Sept. 22 1901] Some of these are clearly from Great Britain. (The latter is a reprint from The Spectator, at http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/31st-august-1901/9/flying-motor-cars http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/31st-august-1901/9/fl... ). Some of these seem to refer to airships -- I don't have an NYT account to read them. If I redo the search with "airplane" then none of the 10 hits seem relevant. They deal with horse racing. (?!) Google n-grams, with the American English corpus, shows "airplane" didn't become popular until about 1913, overtaking "aeroplane" within about 5 years. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=airplane%2Caeroplane&year_start=1890&year_end=1940&corpus=28&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=airplane%2Caer...
danboarder 5y ago
This reminds me of the current state of fusion power generation, self driving, and AGI,.. currently we see a constant flood of hype articles claiming they are nearly here, as well as cautionary articles suggesting we are decades away.
- eesmith 5y ago
  As a reminder, 50+ years ago there were also a lot of articles about fusion power generation, self driving vehicles, and AGI.

OJFord 5y ago

Interesting they wrote 'aeroplane' there, when and why did Americans start using 'airplane' instead I wonder? Hadn't really thought about it but I suppose I assumed the difference had always existed, like 'cell' vs. 'mobile' phones say.

eesmith 5y ago
NYT search has 29 results for "aeroplane" between Jan 1, 1890 and Jan 1, 1903. > TO FLY FROM PIKE'S PEAK.; W.F. Felts Tries His New Aeroplane at Different Altitudes. [Aug. 4, 1897] (followed soon by SNOWSTORM ON PIKE'S PEAK.; W. B. Felts Did Not Attempt His Aeroplane Flight Yesterday.) > Flying Motor Cars [Sept. 22 1901] Some of these are clearly from Great Britain. (The latter is a reprint from The Spectator, at http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/31st-august-1901/9/flying-motor-cars http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/31st-august-1901/9/fl... ). Some of these seem to refer to airships -- I don't have an NYT account to read them. If I redo the search with "airplane" then none of the 10 hits seem relevant. They deal with horse racing. (?!) Google n-grams, with the American English corpus, shows "airplane" didn't become popular until about 1913, overtaking "aeroplane" within about 5 years. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=airplane%2Caeroplane&year_start=1890&year_end=1940&corpus=28&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=airplane%2Caer...

danboarder 5y ago

This reminds me of the current state of fusion power generation, self driving, and AGI,.. currently we see a constant flood of hype articles claiming they are nearly here, as well as cautionary articles suggesting we are decades away.

eesmith 5y ago
As a reminder, 50+ years ago there were also a lot of articles about fusion power generation, self driving vehicles, and AGI.