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Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, in a letter to Thomas A. Edison said that the Navy required "machinery and facilities for utilizing the natural inventive genius of Americans to meet the new conditions of warfare." This letter prompted creation of Naval Consulting Board of civilian advisers which functioned throughout World War I, and which included in its organization a "Committee on ...

Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, tested sextant equipped with a pendulum-type artificial horizon and reported that pendulum type was unsatisfactory for aircraft use, but that a sextant with a gyroscopically stabilized artificial horizon might be acceptable.

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.

Navy Gallander 59A, an airplane with propeller mounted amidships in the fuselage, made preliminary flights at Norwich, Conn., Lt. (JG) G. D. Murray as pilot.

Naval Aircraft Factory authorized to develop the Gorgon, an aerial rum or air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio control and a homing device. The Gorgon was later expanded into a broad program embracing turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket propulsion, and a variety of structures and guidance systems.

First successful flights of balloons at controlled constant altitudes in the stratosphere for periods of more than 3 days announced by the USAF.

USAF fired first air-to-air nuclear warhead rocket, the Douglas MB-1 Genie, from an F-89J over Yucca Flat, Nev., during Operation Plumbob. Genie had been placed in weapon inventory of Air Defense Command in January 1957.

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-148 MEDIA INVITED TO CAPE CANAVERAL JOB FAIR ON JULY 26'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Brevard Workforce are partnering to host a job fair with private sector companies and federal employers from across the country on July 26. News media representatives are invited to attend the Space ...

''RELEASE: 12-241 EARTH-OBSERVING CAMERA TO LAUNCH TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'' WASHINGTON -- A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) this week. Once installed, the system will be directed by researchers on the ground to acquire ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-017'' ''NASA AWARDS SPACE PROPULSION RESEARCH CONTRACTS TO FIVE FIRMS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide space propulsion systems technologies in support of research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Each of the five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts provide for ...

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