
One of the gliders built by Charles Proteus Steinmetz – the “Wizard of Schenectady” – and others in 1894. While working for General Electric at Schenectady, N.Y., Steinmetz organized a band of fellow flying machine enthusiasts into the Mohawk Aerial Navigation Company, and over the summer of 1894 built and tested a man-carrying kite and two true gliders. None were particularly successful.
