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#OnThisDay in 1924, Huff Daland Dusters Inc. was founded; it was one of the earliest known commercial aerial crop-dusting operations in America. In 1928, when C.E. Woolman took over the company, he renamed it Delta Air Service, a predecessor to Delta Air Lines. #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 30, 2019.
Ladybugs come in a variety of colors and sizes. Brightly colored species are toxic—they exude a small, yellow drop of insect blood from their leg joints that tastes bad to predators, such as birds and lizards, who can see color. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on May 14, 2019.
#OnThisDay in 1953, the Douglas DC-7 took its maiden flight. The DC-7 could travel nonstop from coast to coast with a cruising speed of 360 mph and carried 58 to 95 passengers. Have you ever flown on a DC-7? #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 18, 2019.
In her series, “Heterotopia”, #KarineLaval produces dreamlike images that challenge and transform our experience of the natural world. Laval transforms ordinary landscapes into a series of kaleidoscopic composites that oscillate between the real and the imaginary. This tweet was posted on May 19, 2019.
NOW PLAYING: "Traveling Through Brush and Ink" by Annlin Chao. Chao’s stop-motion animated short features a shapeshifting character who journeys through the landscape of four Chinese paintings held in Taiwan’s National Palace Museum. https://t.co/NUYbVFARw2 #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/VocO6lfPIE This tweet was posted on May 20, 2019.
RT @CroydonAirport: On this day 15th 1936 Aviator Amy Johnson arrived in England after a record-breaking 12 day, 15 hour flight from London… This tweet was posted on May 16, 2019.
RT @airandspace: Today in 1932: Amelia Earhart took flight to become the second person, and first woman, to make a solo nonstop transatlant… This tweet was posted on May 20, 2019.
Riding a fine line between representation and abstraction, #KarineLaval’s images challenge our perception and highlight photography’s ability to simultaneously reveal, conceal, and distort reality. This tweet was posted on May 19, 2019.
#Onthisday in 1939, Pan American Airways established the first regular air mail service across the Atlantic. Passenger service followed a month later. The trip took around 36 hours of flying time for a complete total of 51 total hours with layovers. #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 20, 2019.
Born in Centerville, Texas, country bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins learned to play the guitar from his older brother John Henry Hopkins. A prolific songwriter, he recorded nearly 200 songs during his career, which began in the 1940s and ended in the early 1980s. #StoryofArhoolie This tweet was posted on April 30, 2019.
Do you know that butterflies are a type of moth? They evolved from moth ancestors around 70 million years ago. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on May 06, 2019.
Greenleaf TK-8 is a Title 1 Oakland public school grounded in diverse community relationships. Art allows Greenleaf students a means to communicate through creative expression. https://t.co/z6tBkAoR7n This tweet was posted on May 11, 2019.
NOW PLAYING: "Swift Current: A Native American Cowboy" by Thilo Gundelach. This short film profiles Swift Current, a member of Amskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) Nation who maintains a connection with “the old ways” of his culture through rodeo bronc riding. https://t.co/jbcpo974j9 https://t.co/Fmd5bf07sI This tweet was posted on May 09, 2019.
RT @flySFO: Fly nonstop with @EL_AL_Airlines from SFO to Tel Aviv. Flights will operate on an EL AL 787 Dreamliner aircraft 3x a week. Ente… This tweet was posted on May 08, 2019.
Did you know our collections staff catalog each object by hand? We recently received a donation of 1,000 photographs of airplanes. Cataloging includes affixing an accession number to each object, creating an object record in our database, and scanning each photo. #museummonday This tweet was posted on May 13, 2019.
NOW PLAYING: "Yosemite" by Michael Fletcher. With long holds, deliberate pacing, and stunning cinematography, "Yosemite" delivers an outsider’s perspective on Yosemite National Park that affords a deep connection to the grandeur of its landscape. #VideoArtsSFOM #EarthDay https://t.co/wPGxbwYjJo This tweet was posted on April 22, 2019.
"I see my work as a continual exploration into the possibilities within the technique of enameling and indulging the wonderful range of colors available to me." #JaneShort #BritishSilver This tweet was posted on April 25, 2019.
Happy #WorldBookDay! Do you know that our Aviation Museum & Library has a non-circulating collection of over 8,000 books & 600 periodical titles about aviation available to the public? Come visit our library, located pre-security in the Intl Terminal. https://t.co/FdXMSBSo3G This tweet was posted on April 23, 2019.
RT @LibnOfCongress: Happy 219th Birthday @librarycongress! It’s one of Congress’ greatest gifts to the nation. It’s a Library for YOU. http… This tweet was posted on April 24, 2019.
@bradgilreath Hi! Thanks so much for your question! According to a timetable from the late 1930s, Eastern Airlines flew only as far west as San Antonio and Chicago at that time. This tweet was posted on April 15, 2019.
Much of #RyanMcClean's output reflects his interest in the science behind the growth and pattern formation in naturally formed material. McClean hand-raised this vase from a single sheet of silver & hammered the texture onto the pitch-supported form. #BritishSilver @Mccleansilver This tweet was posted on April 16, 2019.
NOW PLAYING: “Plastic: A Second Life” by Simon Ben, @Borderland_lnd. Kenya’s bold approach to combating plastic waste is illuminated through the words and deeds of that nation’s activists, merchants, entrepreneurs, and innovators. https://t.co/LnCPkfwGQJ #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/atMsA2AGNo This tweet was posted on April 29, 2019.
RT @airandspace: Today in 1926, Bessie Coleman was killed during a practice flight. Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a… This tweet was posted on April 30, 2019.
Special thanks to The Pearson Silver Collection. "A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design 1957 to 2018" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/70YAuXoOld #BritishSilver This tweet was posted on April 25, 2019.
Special thanks to The Pearson Silver Collection. "A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design 1957 to 2018" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/70YAuXGpJN #BritishSilver This tweet was posted on April 16, 2019.
The first Western Air Express flight departed #onthisday in 1926 with an airmail flight from LA to SLC in a Douglas M-2 mailplane. A merger in 1930 between TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport) and Western Air Express formed TWA, Transcontinental & Western Air. #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 17, 2019.
What's going on at the museum? One of our preparators, Thai, is starting work on a mount for our upcoming insects’ exhibition. All of the mounts in our exhibitions are built in-house by our team of fantastic preparators. #museumlife #behindthescenes #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on April 18, 2019.
@timbuk2 We have a list of our current exhibits on our website: http://t.co/m2Z33uAy. There are a whole bunch for you to see! This tweet was posted on February 06, 2012.
Have we mentioned how fantastic our volunteers are? On this #VolunteerAppreciationDay, we'd like to highlight one of our amazing Aviation Museum and Library volunteers! Terry is a former Pan American flight attendant and has volunteered at the museum for the last seven years. This tweet was posted on April 20, 2019.
In the 1930s and 40s, microphones were reshaped into designs that emphasized streamlined beauty and efficiency. The RCA Aerodynamic microphone was designed in a smooth, teardrop shape suggesting that it could fly through the air with frictionless ease. #StreamlinesAesthetics This tweet was posted on April 19, 2019.
Microscopes were "born" c.1590 when a Dutch spectacle maker placed two lenses in series for a greater magnification: http://t.co/ZRP6zxye This tweet was posted on February 06, 2012.
NOW PLAYING: "The Backseat" by Joe Stankus and Ashley Connor. Have you asked your folks for a ride somewhere? "The Backseat" reveals recognizable family dynamics and draws viewers into a world that feels honest, personal, and familiar. https://t.co/Um5Wd00iUK #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/0YKOhRwfcD This tweet was posted on April 19, 2019.
See "A World of Possibilities" by #SanMateo #HighSchool pre-security in Terminal 3. https://t.co/Uvm7Vr0vzM This tweet was posted on April 21, 2019.
Students of #SanMateo #HighSchool's art program are exposed to a broad arts curriculum, which includes a variety of traditional studio courses in addition to others that explore new digital media. https://t.co/Uvm7Vr0vzM This tweet was posted on April 21, 2019.
Like a 1920s version of a tape AND cd playing boombox, this phonograph can play both lateral- & vertical-cut records: http://t.co/gvW7d4Xn This tweet was posted on February 06, 2012.
Moto Devil's 160cc Raid was good race performer but was unable to win the ultimate victory: a Grand Prix Championship. http://t.co/YzSJ0uqV This tweet was posted on February 07, 2012.