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5 unusual facts about Daniel Guggenheim


Burnelli GX-3

Soon after, Daniel Guggenheim announced the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition.

Daniel Guggenheim

He was approached by Stephen Birch, a wealthy miner with big hopes for the development of Alaska and its railroads, in regards to financing Birch's developing copper claims.

Guggenheim and his brother formed a gentlemen's agreement with Birch to form the Alaska Syndicate, which purchased just under half of the stock in Birch's company and all of the stock in the Copper River and Northwestern Railway.

Handley Page Gugnunc

The aircraft was intended to compete in a competition proposed by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics - the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition.

Hempstead House

After the completion of this house in 1912, the Goulds sold the estate to Daniel Guggenheim.


Wallace O. Fenn

Other recognitions included: honorary degrees from the University of Chicago, the University of Brussels and from the University of Paris, as well as the following awards: Feltrinell International Prize for Experimental Medicine and the Guggenheim award of the International Academy of Astronautics.


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