Micajah Clark Dyer and his "Flying Machine" 
Clark and Morena Dyer
Go to the web site about Micajah Clark Dyer
and his "Flying Machine"
http://www.micajahclarkdyer.org/
For the book
Georgia's Pioneer Aviator, Micajah Clark Dyer
by Sylvia Turnage
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A new 39-cent U.S. postage stamp has been printed to honor Macajah Clark Dyer for his invention of an “Apparatus for Navigating the Air.” The stamp shows the front view of Dyer’s flying ship as depicted in U.S. Patent, No. 154,654 issued to him on September 1, 1874.Clark Dyer designed, patented, built and flew his machine in Union County, Blairsville, Georgia, during the late 1800’s, decades before other inventors were able to achieve controlled air navigation. The stamp was designed by Dyer’s great-great granddaughter, Sylvia Dyer Turnage. It has been entered into competition for display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., beginning August 2007.
Drawings taken from the original patent
show different views of the flying machine.
Union County Commissioner Lamar Paris hangs a display
of the 39-cent U. S. Postage stamp honoring
Union County pioneer inventor Micajah Clark Dyer
A sheet of U. S. Postage stamps featuring one of the drawings of Micajah Clark Dyer’s aircraft., taken from the patent he obtained from the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office on September 1, 1874, is now hanging in the Union County Courthouse.