Timothy R. Gaffney

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1) Dayton Beer: A History of Brewing in the Miami Valley

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The story of beer in Dayton and the Miami Valley is as old as the region's first settlers, who brought their brewing methods with them from Europe. From humble origins, the Schwind brothers founded a Dayton brewing dynasty. Adam Schantz arrived penniless and amassed a fortune as one of the city's early brewers. Martha Vorce, one of the region's several unheralded woman brewers, was running the Springfield Brewery a decade before Eliza "Mother" Stewart...

2) The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation

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Gaffney, Timothy R

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The Wright brothers are known around the world as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio--their hometown--not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places in the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Today, you can stroll the Wright brothers' neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie...

3) Secret spy satellites : America's eyes in space

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Gaffney, Timothy R

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Countdown to space

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Enslow

Pub. Date

2000

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History of the development of spy satellites beginning with the Corona in the 1950s; includes information about space surveillance over the Soviet Union and secrecy of the program.

4) Wee and the Wright brothers

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Gaffney, Timothy R

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Henry Holt

Pub. Date

2004

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A rodent reporter from the "Mouse News" travels from Dayton, Ohio, to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to cover Wilbur and Orville Wright's historic 1903 flight.