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Secrets of Porcelain and Early Flight Facts
A historical note recounts Bottger’s 1710 porcelain breakthrough and links the McClellan collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It contrasts past altitude measures in feet with modern aims for miles, cites a Civic Aeronautics Administration report on civil pilots, and mentions Louisiana’s nickname the Pelican State and Les LaSalle’s naming of Louis XIV in England’s famine era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bottger
George B. McClellan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Civic Aeronautics Administration
Louisiana
Pelican State
Louis XIV of
France
LaSalle