About
Aviator who built a motorized heavier-than-air craft.
Before fame
He would build models of flying machines at the Stevens Institute of Technology where he was a student in 1888.
Trivia
He worked with the U.S. Army to design aircraft during World War I.
Family life
He married his girlfriend Lillian Mellen.
Associated with
He filed a lawsuit against Glenn Curtiss for cheating him out of his ideas and assets.
