Charles Doolittle Walcott
Paleontologist and former Director of the U.S. Geological SurveyWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
Here's the part of this story that most people do not know, and it is the part that kept the wound open for decades after everyone involved was gone.
Tail DraggerHOST
In 1914, the Smithsonian, under a new secretary named Charles Walcott, lent the original aerodrome airframe to Glenn Curtis.
Tail DraggerHOST
Curtis was at the time locked in patent litigation with Orville Wright.
Tail DraggerHOST
He had a strong incentive to demonstrate that someone other than the Wrights had been first.
Jackie MullinsHOST
Luis Belleron became the first person to fly across the English Channel and the only person with absolutely no feel for French try to say his name.
Jackie MullinsHOST
the world was very busy conquering things and meanwhile a paleontologist named charles walcott was riding on horseback through the mountains of the british columbia and canada he was 59 years old the head of the smithsonian institution and by any measure already one of the most successful scientists in america and then his horse stumbled on something in the trail walcott got off to look What he found would turn out to be one of the most significant fossil deposits ever discovered.
Jackie MullinsHOST
A layer of shale, which is just basically ancient mud that had been compressed into rock, high in the Canadian Rockies containing Cambrian organisms, preserved in extraordinary detail.
Jackie MullinsHOST
Soft tissue, internal organs, eyes, guts, things that almost never fossilized, preserved in stunning detail half a billion years after they died.