Paul Garber: Eyewitness to History

摘要

In 1920, while visiting the Smithsonian, a young Paul Garber noticed that the control wires of the 1909 Wright Military Flyer were incorrectly installed. After pointing this out to a curator, Garber was offered a three-month appointment He ended up staying at the Smithsonian Institution for 72 years. Garber was the Air Museum's first curator, eventually becoming head curator, and then senior historian, before his death in 1992.