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His early mechanical prowess and exploits in speed with bicycles, motorcycles and flying machines made him the thinly disguised model for the series of boy's books known as "The Adventures of Tom Swift".
Hammondsport was the site of Curtiss' bicycle and motorcycle shop, and his early experiments in aviation with Alexander Graham Bell including the flight of the "June Bug" in 1908 which won Curtiss the "Scientific American" trophy and later U.S. pilot's license number one.
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