Beenen - Flying Machines, British Patent 9864 of 1897
A British patent specification, filed in 1897 by Bernhard Reinhard Beenen for a flying machine, submitted to the Patent Office for examiners and rival inventors. The single sheet is a line-drawn elevation of a rotor-and-propeller craft on a wheeled frame, lettered part by part, with an office number stamp, handwritten notes and a torn, stained paper edge.
