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First year of formal graduate study in aeronautical engineering was completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and one master of science degree was awarded. Electrical Experimenter magazine features cover art by Frank Paul of spacecraft designed by Hugo Gernsback . The artwork presages the Telstar satellite of almost 50 years later. Image:EE 1915-06.jpg 300px

All-metal fully cantilever-wing monoplane produced by Hugo Junkers in Germany, the J-1 powered by a 120-hp Mercedes, made its first successful flights. Martian canals and cities appear on the cover of science magazine Electrical Experimenter . Image:EE 1915-12.jpg 300px

Hugo Gernsback's story "The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchhausen" continues in "Electrical Experimenter" magazine. Image:EE 1915-07.jpg 300px

Percival Lowell 's maps of Martian canals appear in Hugo Gernsback 's Electrical Experimenter magazine. Image:EE 1915-10 mars.jpg 300px

New official American one man duration record of 8 hours 53 minutes set by Lt. B. Q. Jones in a Martin tractor biplane at San Diego, Calif. First transcontinental telephone conversation, New York to San Francisco, by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

First German aerial bombing of Britain, by two Zeppelins, thereby opening up a new era in the exploitation of aeronautics. During World War I, a total of 50 tons of aerial bombs was dropped on London and 214 tons on the rest of Britain.

First air-to-air combat, German airman killed by rifle fire from Allied aircraft. In February a machine-gun mounted on a French aircraft, Lieutenant Garros as pilot, first shot down a German aircraft.

Macy automatic pilot tests were begun at San Diego, Calif.

Navy AB-2 flying boat successfully catapulted from a barge, Lt. P. N. Bellinger as pilot.

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