The Ezekiel Airship
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 32° 59.551 W 094° 58.147
15S E 316022 N 3652179
Texas Historical Marker located at the end of Market St, at its intersection with Fulton St in Pittsburg, providing some background on a pre-Wright Brothers aircraft that is alleged to have flown briefly here in 1902.
Waymark Code: WMYZQD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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Marker Number: 9794

Marker Text:
Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (1848-1922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel Airship Company and build a craft described in the Biblical Book of Ezekiel. The ship had large, fabric-covered wings powered by an engine that turned four sets of paddles. It was built in a nearby machine shop and was briefly airborne at this site late in 1902, a year before the Wright brothers first flew. Enroute to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the airship was destroyed by a storm. In 1913 a second model crashed, and the Rev. Cannon gave up the project. (1976)
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