SZT5059829: This recording shows two film screening machines, on the left a French film screening machine, which was not able to show a film and on the right the improved apparatus of the film pioneer Oskar Messter. Messter donated both pieces to the historical film collection of the German Museum in Munich, 1895 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
SZT5059834: At the Berlin-Johannisthal airfield, the pioneer and owner of the aircraft repair plant in Strausberg Alfred Friedrich is greeted by a woman with flowers after he successfully completed the Berlin-Paris-London-Berlin route. His plane was the so-called Etrich pigeon built by himself. The first long-haul flight Berlin-Paris-London-Berlin over a distance of 2500 kilometres in September 1913, in which the then 22-year-old Alfred Friedrich crossed the canal twice with a passenger on board, represented an enormous achievement in that stage of development of international aviation, 1913 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images