Episode #30, Orville Wright on air power | Balloon Spies | Dr. Libby O’Connell food history | Maryland Commemoration | WWI Museum & Memorial in KC | and more…
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Feature: Orville Wright on winning the war with air power |@ 01:15<br> Feature: James Higgs Balloon Observer |@ 03:30<br> Guest: Mike Shuster on GAS |@ 07:30<br> Guests: Richard Rubin & Jonathan Bratten on building a national army |@ 12:00<br> Event: William C. Gorgas and the Great War in Tuscaloosa, AL |@ 19:00<br> Guest: Dr. Libby O’Connell about the history of food |@ 20:30<br> Feature: introducing the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials Review Committee |@ 27:00<br> Guest: David Craig on the Maryland WW1 Centennial Commemoration |@ 30:15<br> Guest: Laura Vogt on the National WWI Museum and Memorial in KC |@ 36:00<br> Buzz: Facebook post on the Kodak VPK - vest pocket camera |@ 42:00<br> Shout out: to the commission’s summer of 2017 interns |@ 44:00<br> <br> and more...<br> <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> <br> Today is July 26th, 2017 and this week we joined by Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten - Dr. Libby O’Connell - US WW1 Centennial Commissioner and historian and author - David Craig, Executive Director of the Maryland World War I Centennial Commission- and Lora Vogt, Curator of Education at the National WW1 Museum and Memorial in Kansas City.<br> <br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host. <br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> [SOUND TRANSITION]<br> Welcome!<br> We have moved back in time 100 years. It’s the week of July 23rd, 1917 <br> This week 100 years ago - On Tuesday July 24, 1917 A massive $640,000,000 aviation bill passes in both the House and the Senate is sent to the President for signature. This is one of the largest appropriation for a single idea that the US has ever made - and it passes congress with little to no objection - <br> This is in no small part - because there are so many advocates that believe this incredible new technology of flying machines can be pivotal in the war. <br> As written in the “Official Bulletin”, the government war gazette published by George Creel, President Wilson’s propaganda chief… <br> Mr. Orville Wright declares that:<br> When my brother and I built and flew the first man-carrying machine [14 years ago], we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars… practically impossible. Nevertheless, the world [now] finds itself in the- greatest war in history.<br> I say that neither side has been able to win on account of the part - the airplane has played.<br> Both sides know exactly what the other is doing. The two sides are apparently nearly equal in aerial equipment, and unless present conditions can be changed the war will continue for years.<br> <br> "However; if the allies' armies are equipped with such a number of airplanes as to keep the enemy planes entirely back of the line, so that they are unable to direct gunfire or to observe the movement<br> of the allied troops—in other words, if the enemy's eyes can be put out —it will be possible to end the war. <br> And this is not taking into account what might be done by bombing German sources of munition and supplies.<br> But to end the war quickly and cheaply, the supremacy In the air must be so complete as to entirely blind the enemy. I believe that by no other method can the war be ended with so little loss of life and property."<br> And 100 years ago this week, the United States makes a $640,000,000 bet that this is so. <br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> War in the Sky<br> This leads us directly into our War In The Sky segments
