{"id":6845,"date":"2012-07-05T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2012-07-05T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:11:27","slug":"1917-aviation-infographic-incidentally-there-may-be-a-revival-of-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/05\/1917-aviation-infographic-incidentally-there-may-be-a-revival-of-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"1917 aviation infographic: “Incidentally, there may be a revival of smuggling”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, I looked through the July issues of various magazines I own from the mid-19th through the early 20th Century in search of something appropriate for a 4th of July post, and came up empty. <\/p>\n

I was sure there’d be a suitable essay or cartoon in the July 7th, 1917 issue of The Graphic<\/em><\/a>—after all, there was a war on, so surely there’d be patriotism on display—but no. Oh, the newspaper’s pages were filled with some nice pictures of Woodrow Wilson and the War Cabinet, and a few over-the-top rants against Junkerdom<\/a>, but nothing beautiful or funny or poetic or uplifting. And so … no July 4th post.<\/p>\n

But I did find something intriguing—a large page of charts and graphs published under the collective header, “When We All Take to the Air: Post-War Propositions for Commercial Aeronautics.”<\/p>\n

Check below to see Lord Montagu’s ideas for how to divvy up airspace, the estimated annual cost of running a London-Paris air route, and the distances covered in one hour by different methods of transportation of the day. <\/p>\n

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Note the warning that with the coming age of non-military aviation, “there may be a revival of smuggling.”<\/p>\n

Please forgive the imperfection of the scanning. I don’t own a scanner large enough to accommodate the magazine’s 15.75″ x 11.25″ sheets, and so had to create this image out of two scans. I hope you enjoy it anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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