Looking Toward the Future

  • Niebergall, Ernst
Publication date
April 2008
Publisher
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Abstract

Sanduskians gather on the ice at the Columbus Avenue dock with George Bing's biplane, an ice boat, and an automobile. City fathers encouraged carriage maker George Bing to perfect his "airship," believing that flying would be faster and a more efficient means of delivering the mail to the Erie Islands during the winter months. When Lake Erie froze, mail was delivered by ice boat

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