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This article deals with the production of a tractor-type biplane by the William A. Kepseker factory which was located at 917 East Sixth avenue in Topeka, Kansas. In addition, the article describes the dimensions of the new airplane, as well as other details concerning its construction and performance.
Creator: Topeka Journal
Date: August 27, 1921
This article on W.A. Kopseker's airplane helps students understand the scope of the aviation industry in Kansas during the early 1920s, including the fact that Topeka was a city with a number of aviation companies.
KS: 7th: 4.6.A.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans in the aviation industry
Item Number: 213297
Call Number: K629.13, Aviation Clippings, Vol. 1, 1909-1930, pg. 148
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213297
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6)
Date - 1920s - 1921
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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