Title: Toliver Aerial Navigation Co. “The Problem Solved” trade card Author: Toliver, C.H. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Toliver Aerial Navigation Co., 37 Sutter St. Date: [c.1910] Description: 3x5 printed and pictorial advertising card for a free exhibition to “come and see the working model.” An artist’s pictorial image of Toliver’s craft in flight above a city titled “The Problem Solved.” List of officers and board of directions on the verso. C.H. Toliver, an early aviation experimenter, who had a 250 foot long (40 feet in diameter) rigid airship / dirigible built after floating a bond issue for financing. It had four gasoline engines and six propellers, which he proposed to inflate with hydrogen gas and take off with forty passengers on a flight that would “astound the world.” He was unable to making it rise (near San Diego, California, circa 1910-12). The city feared it would explode and declared the aircraft a public nuisance. Later, Toliver’s secretary shot Toliver and his wife to death. Lot Amendments Condition: Old creases, light soiling, still very good. A scarce and interesting piece of early aviation ephemera / history. Item number: 173148
Title: Toliver Aerial Navigation Co. “The Problem Solved” trade card Author: Toliver, C.H. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Toliver Aerial Navigation Co., 37 Sutter St. Date: [c.1910] Description: 3x5 printed and pictorial advertising card for a free exhibition to “come and see the working model.” An artist’s pictorial image of Toliver’s craft in flight above a city titled “The Problem Solved.” List of officers and board of directions on the verso. C.H. Toliver, an early aviation experimenter, who had a 250 foot long (40 feet in diameter) rigid airship / dirigible built after floating a bond issue for financing. It had four gasoline engines and six propellers, which he proposed to inflate with hydrogen gas and take off with forty passengers on a flight that would “astound the world.” He was unable to making it rise (near San Diego, California, circa 1910-12). The city feared it would explode and declared the aircraft a public nuisance. Later, Toliver’s secretary shot Toliver and his wife to death. Lot Amendments Condition: Old creases, light soiling, still very good. A scarce and interesting piece of early aviation ephemera / history. Item number: 173148
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