ELMER ALLAH BURLINGAME 1879-1935

Elmer Burlingame from The Burlingame Telegraphing Typewriter Project by Lynn Burlingame

	The Beginnings	Elmer's Plane at Garden City July 1910	Elmer's Plane at Hempstead Plain August, 1910

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Elmer Burlingame" +aviation, using the Google search engine, (5-9-06), you will find about 13 links. Perhaps the most helpful of the relevant links are the following.

 

The AERO CLUB OF NEW ENGLAND      Philip Fletcher has written a long letter to the Aero Club in which he poses many questions regarding Elmer and also offers many important bits of information. In response, Bill Deane has answered some of his questions and offered many other facts of interest. You can read the whole exchange by clicking on the title above.

 

The Burlingame Telegraphing Typewriter Project by Lynn Burlingame      I first became aware of Elmer Allah Burlingame several years ago while working on a Burlingame family genealogy. A distant relative sent me two printed pages of information about Elmer Burlingame, and it was of a nature that I was certain that it was the product of a genealogy mill. One of the sheets was the "Burlingame Bulletin" and it consisted of endless testimonials about Burlingame that indicated that he was a combination of Tesla, Edison, Steinmetz, Einstein, Alger and Bell............   To read the rest of this fascinating story, just click on the title.

 

The Burlingame Telegraphing Typewriter Patent Contributed by Jeremy Burlingame, 2-28-11      I did a quick search in Google Patents and found this copy of the patent application filed April 26, 1906.

 

Elmer Burlingame died on January 22, 1935 From Philip L. Fletcher   Editor's Note: If you have any information on this Early Flier, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back