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The War Department Board of Ordnance and Fortification formally notifies John H. Lorimer that it will make no change in its policy regarding “flying machines.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-08
Samson W. Fuller of the War Department writes to inventor and machinery operator John Hewetson Lorimer that the Board will make no allotments for the “experimental development of machines for aerial navigation.” Machines also should have been brought to practical operation without government expense.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John H. Lorimer for his letter. Roosevelt believes that if President Woodrow Wilson had acted firmly when the Gulflight was attacked, the people who died on the Lusitania would still be alive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-21