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  1. Octave Chanute, 1832-1910;: The contributions of an American civil engineer to the improvement of railroads, railroad bridges, timber preservation, and aeronautics; a bibliography by Pearl I Young, 1963
  2. Octave Chanute, 1832-1910: A brief biography by Charlie Plumb, 1977
  3. The complete writings of Octave Chanute (1832-1910) by Pearl I Young, 1961
  4. Bibliography of items about Octave Chanute, 1832-1910 by Pearl I Young, 1961

61. 3.1 Glider-Phile | Szybownictwo W Filatelistyce | GLIDER PHILE
Pionierzy. Octave Chanute 18321910. Amerykanski inzynier, wynalazca,teoretyk i pionier lotnictwa. Z pochodzenia francuz Zbudowal
http://www.glider-phile.pl/1/3_1.html
Pionierzy OCTAVE CHANUTE 1832-1910 Amerykañski in¿ynier, wynalazca, teoretyk i pionier lotnictwa. Z pochodzenia francuz Zbudowa³ wiele szybowcow na których jego asystent A.Herring wykona³ ponad tysi±c lotów. Wynalaz³ i zastosowa³ w praktyce ster wysoko¶ci i kierunku lotu. Autor licznych prac naukowych. Z jego dokonañ korzystali bracia Wright.

62. Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
Morgan, Jr., 1962, Editor Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881, Translator Cary, HenryFrancis, 1772-1844, Translator Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 Christophe, Jules
http://www.olympus.edu.pl/Instytut NW/wirtualna biblioteka/autorzy.htm

63. Great Brain Quiz 111 - Answers
Great aviation pioneer; Percy Pilcher (85) 186699. Flew gliders but died in his Hawk ; Octave Chanute (85) 1832-1910 author of Progress in Flying Machines ;
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Great Brain Quiz 111
( ) % of correct answers (including tie breakers) when section attempted
  • Ingrid Bergman (99) 1944 + 1956
  • Renee Zellweger (99) wont be long till she gets one!
  • Patricia Neal (99) 1963
  • Luise Rainer (80) 1936 + 1937
  • Audrey Hepburn (99) 1953
  • Nem. con (99) for nemine contradicente, ie nobody contradicting
  • Vettori/ Dettori (98) Daniel the New Zealand all rounder; Lanfranco ("Frankie") the popular Italian-born jockey
  • Hannibal (99) music by Patrick Cassidy. Boyd was "Hopalong Cassidy"
  • Gardner (95) son of "Samwise Gamgee" and "Rose Cotton". Bilbo Baggins was the son of Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took. See newsletter.
  • Skein (99) "gaggle" when on the ground
  • Ring a ring o'roses (100)
  • Hygeia (99) hence "hygiene"
  • Pacific 1860 (80) by Noel Coward. A flop. Mary Martin starred at the same theatre in 1951 in "South Pacific".
  • Death Comes As The End (98)
  • Venus (95)
  • Herbert Khaury (95) ie Tiny Tim. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"
  • Tulip (99)
  • Tarzan's Revenge (85) 1938. Glenn Morris + Eleanor Holm
  • 64. Octave Chanute --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
    , Chanute, Octave (1832–1910). US civil engineer Octave Chanute was bornin Paris, France. He is known for his improvements to glider design.
    http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=344095&query=octave cremazie&ct=ebi

    65. Information Page On The Octave Chanute And His 1897 Hang Glider
    Octave Chanute (1832 1910) Octave Chanute was a civil engineer, business manand aviation enthusiast whose standing in the aeronautical world of the time
    http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/private/chanute-glider/info/info.htm
    Octave Chanute Glider
    Octave Chanute (1832 - 1910):
    First flown at the Dune Park location as a tri-plane on Saturday, August 29th, it was found to be too unwieldy. On Monday the 31st the lower of the three wings was removed and some successful glides were made with the machine. A week of bad weather prevented glides until Friday, when 10 or 12 'beautiful' glides were made, the longest 253 feet.
    Octave Chanute and the Wright Brothers:
    When the Wright brothers first became seriously interested in the problem of manned flight in 1899 they wrote to the Smithsonian Institution and requested from it's Secretary everything that had been written on the subject so far. From the materials they received back from the Smithsonian it didn't take them long to realize that Octave Chanute in Chicago had not only become the intellectual clearinghouse for information about experiments worldwide, but highly successful experimenter in his own right.
    Use these photos to help create your own 1897 Double decker Chanute Glider. Chanute's original was the forerunner of the modern hang-glider. The "pilot" hung by his armpits from the wooden supports beneath the lower wing, throwing his weight from side to side to steer the craft. The aircraft featured Chanute's square-truss design, first employed in railroad bridge construction and later used by the Wright brothers on their 1903 Flyer.

    66. Chanute
    Markers of Distinction. Octave Chanute 1832–1910 Aviation pioneer.Although the Wright brothers are remembered as the first aviation
    http://www.chicagotribute.org/Markers/Chanute.htm
    C H I C A G O T R I B U T E Home List of markers Location map Nominations ... Acknowledgments Markers of Distinction Octave Chanute
    Aviation pioneer

    Although the Wright brothers are
    remembered as the first aviation pioneers,
    they were profoundly influenced by Octave
    Chanute. Wilbur Wright claimed that "if
    [Chanute] had not lived, the entire history
    of progress in flying would have been other
    than it has been."
    A renowned civil engineer, Chanute built
    railroads that opened the American West, and designed Chicago's Union Stock Yards. He was mesmerized, though, by the possibility of flight. While in his 60s, Chanute produced a "two-surface gliding machine," which was flown over the Indiana Dunes by a handful of younger associates. His Progress in Flying Machines (1894) quickly became the classic text of aviation experimenters. Chanute later advised the Wright brothers and photographed their flying experiments at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. During this time, Chanute lived at 224 (formerly 413) East Huron Street.

    67. Kansas City Public Library - Local History
    Biography of Octave Chanute, 1832 1910. Engineer, bridge builder. Full Text When Octave Chanute...... Neg Barcode Chanute.
    http://www.kclibrary.org/resources/sc/media.cfm?mediaID=34817

    68. FLYING MACHINES - Chanute & Herring
    Web Site And Contents Thereof Are Reserved. Octave Alexandre Chanute1832 1910. Octave Chanute, a native of France, was retired
    http://www.flyingmachines.org/chan.html
    Octave Alexandre Chanute
    Augustus Moore Herring
    Carroll Gray All Rights To This Web Domain And Web Site And Contents Thereof Are Reserved
    Octave Alexandre Chanute
    Octave Chanute, a native of France, was retired from a distinguished engineering career and living in Chicago, Illinois, when he began to pursue his life-long interest in aeronautics. His experiments with "gliding machines" began in 1896 and were conducted at Dune Park, Miller Beach, Indiana, on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.

    Camp Chanute, Dune Park, Indiana - 1896
    Magic Lantern glass slide (ca. 1909) depicting
    Octave Chanute's first glider - 1896
    Octave Chanute's Multiple-Wing Glider was built to test the possibility of utilizing wings which pivoted fore-and-aft about a vertical axis to control the center of pressure on the wings of the glider, thus providing stability. The strange appearance of this gliding machine with its "oscillating" wings has caused many people to dismiss the concept, especially in light of the later "classic" designs with trussed and "fixed" wings. However, while this glider was hardly successful, in its design can be seen the germ of a idea which would later be used in numerous designs of military jet-powered machines with pivoting movable wing surfaces, notably the F-111 and B-1.
    Octave Chanute's Multiple-Wing Glider - "First Form" - 1896
    Drawing of Octave Chanute's Multiple-Wing
    Gliding Machine - 1896 Augustus Moore Herring (1909) Augustus Moore Herring - 1907 Augustus Moore Herring was hired by Chanute to assist with the 1896 gliding machine experiments at Miller Beach and Dune Park, Indiana. Herring built a

    69. OCTAVE CHANUTE LETTER, 1904
    None. ACCESSION NUMBER 1998.0174. NOTES BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH. Octave Chanute(1832–1910) was born in Paris to Joseph and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanute.
    http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/sc2642.html
    Collection #
    SC 2642
    octave chanute
    letter, 1904
    Collection Information Biographical Sketch Scope and Content Note Cataloging Information Processed by Chris Harter
    20 January 1998
    Revised 24 April 2002
    Updated 9 March 2004 Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
    William Henry Smith Memorial Library
    Indiana Historical Society
    450 West Ohio Street
    Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269 www.indianahistory.org
    COLLECTION INFORMATION
    VOLUME OF
    COLLECTION: 1 folder COLLECTION
    DATES: PROVENANCE: History Makers, Inc., 4041 East 82 nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46250 RESTRICTIONS: None REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. ALTERNATE FORMATS: None RELATED HOLDINGS: None ACCESSION NUMBER: NOTES:
    BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH
    Octave Chanute (1832–1910) was born in Paris to Joseph and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanute.  His parents emigrated from France to the United States in 1838, and Chanute was educated in private schools in New York City.  From 1853 to 1863 he worked in various capacities for Hudson River Railroad.  In 1857, he married Annie James of Peoria, Illinois.  As a civic and consulting engineer, Chanute worked mainly in the construction of railroads and railroad bridges.  However, he is known more for his work in the area of aerial navigation.  He was probably the first person to conduct scientific gliding experiments in the United States.  In 1896 and 1897 Chanute and his assistants made hundreds of glides at Dune Park, near Lake Michigan.  He also designed a biplane, which the Wright Brothers used as a model for their designs.  Chanute was the author of two influential books

    70. Octave Chanute's Glider Experiments Of 1896
    Octave Chanute (1832 1910); Augustus M. Herring (1865-1926); William Avery;William Paul Butusov; The Cast of Characters -. Octave Chanute (1832 - 1910).
    http://spicerweb.org/chanute/chanute.html
    Wings Off the Dunes
    Miller, Indiana, Octave Chanute
    and the Invention of the Airplane
    Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The Significance of the Miller Experiments
  • 1896: Flying Machines and Miller Junction
    The Cast of Characters -
  • Octave Chanute
  • Augustus M. Herring
  • William Avery
  • William Paul Butusov ...
  • The First Experiments -
    Miller Beach, Indiana, June 22- July 4, 1896
  • The Second Experiments -
    Dune Park, August 21 - September 26, 1896
  • Epilogue - Writing and More Experimentation
  • Notes Prologue
    In the midst of a blistering heat wave early in July of 1936 a number of people, including the mayor of Gary, aviation historians and citizens of Miller Beach, gathered in Marquette Park to dedicate a plaque to Octave Chanute and his gliding experiments on the beach in 1896. Several people were there who remembered Chanute, remembered that two weeks in late June of 1896 and the flights of the 'crazy old man of the dunes.' While the memory was not fresh, it is certain that many of Miller's residents in 1936 were aware that important experiments in the history of the development of the airplane had occurred on their beach 40 years earlier. In the 60 years since that time the significance and the memory of those glider flights has faded into the past for almost all of Miller's residents. The Significance of the Miller Experiments
    Modern writers of aviation history recognize Chanute's experiments and their importance to the development of powered flight. Histories of flight, like Dr. Tom Crouch's
  • 71. Kansas City Bridge
    A view from the southwest of the Kansas City Bridge across the Missouri River fromChanute, Octave (18321910) and George Morison (1842-1903) The Kansas City
    http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/civil/kansas_city_bridge_
    Centuries of Civil Engineering The Kansas City Bridge
    A view from the southwest of the Kansas City Bridge across the Missouri River
    from
    Chanute, Octave (1832-1910) and George Morison
    The Kansas City Bridge, With an Account of the Regimen of the Missouri River, and a Description of Methods Used for Founding in That River . New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870. Linda Hall Library , 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2498 USA. (816) 363-4600. If you have questions or comments about this site, send mail to the exhibition curator or to webmaster . For reference questions, send mail to Reference or to the exhibition curator . Most recent site update: October 29, 2002

    72. Octave CHANUTE
    de l Aviation, Edmond Petit. Après avoir passé de nombreuses
    http://perso.club-internet.fr/moinier/histoire/hommes/chanute.html
    OCTAVE CHANUTE
    Nouvelle Histoire Mondiale de l'Aviation, Edmond Petit En 1894, il publia son livre, Progress in flying machines, qui constitua, avec l'oeuvre de LILIENTHAL WRIGHT

    73. NPS Historical Handbook: Wright Brothers
    Octave Chanute (1832—1910). When a model flies, it does not necessarilyfollow that a fullsize machine of the same design will also fly.
    http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/34/hh34c.htm
    WRIGHT BROTHERS
    National Memorial
    Lilienthal's two-surface glider of 1895 in which some of his highest and longest glides were made. This German engineer made hundreds of glides with various apparatuses employing birdlike wings.
    Pioneers of Flight
    Since the dawn of history the idea of human flight has intrigued mankind. As the influence of the Wrights' achievements will last far into the future, so will the contributions of aeronautical pioneers who probed the mysteries of flight before Wilbur and Orville solved the problem. The research of these imaginative pioneer investigators influenced the brothers. In studying those earlier works the Wrights found many points that interested them. The knowledge that other pioneers had shared their faith in the possibility of heavier-than-air flight helped their morale. In the pioneers' direct line of descent from the Greek legend of Daedalus and Icarius to the Wrights is Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci drew some interesting sketches in the late 15th century, though a machine built from his drawings could not possibly have flown. The interest in England of Sir George Cayley influenced other men to undertake the problem.
    Only a few of the general public could distinguish between a heavier-than-air powered flying machine and a lighter-than-air gas bag equipped with propellers. Few knew that the problem of powered flight was not to fill a balloon with gas or hot air and float in it, or to glide in a complicated kite against air currents. Many among those who realized the obstacles to heavier-than-air flight in a powered machine believed it was as impossible as perpetual motion.

    74. Www.needs.org: A Digital Library For Engineering Education
    BACK. Octave Chanute Octave Chanute (1832 1910, Paris, France) wasboth a mentor and predecessor to the Wright Brothers. Chanute
    http://www.needs.org/needs/public/thematic/archive/1203_Flight/flight_page2.jhtm
    Home W E L C O M E ! * * * CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF FLIGHT * * *
    Related Resources are Right Here ENGINEERING HEROS
    George Cayley
    Sir George Cayley (1773 - 1857, Yorkshire, England) was instrumental in setting the stage for the first heavier-than-air flight. Cayley developed an advanced understanding of the aeronautics of birds through study of their flight. He systematized the study of flight, experimented with wing design, differentiated between lift and drag, and developed the now fundamental concepts of steering rudders, vertical tail surfaces, rear elevators, and air screws. Cayley realized that a successful man-made flight would require meeting the challenges of lift, control, and propulsion, challenges not yet comprehended by his contemporaries.
    Octave Chanute
    Octave Chanute (1832 - 1910, Paris, France) was both a mentor and predecessor to the Wright Brothers. Chanute flew gliders before the Wright Brothers first flight. In 1894, Chanute published "Progress in Flying Machines" in which he summarized and analyzed the technical accomplishments in flight to that day. "Progress in Flying Machines" became a classic guide for aspiring aviators, including the Wright Brothers. Chanute's contributions to flight science included such areas as control systems, stability, materials, and structural integrity. Chanute was also instrumental in rekindling the interest in flight in Europe after the Wright Brothers successful first flight.
    Sheila Widnall
    Sheila Evans Widnall (1938 - Tacoma, Washington) is a former Secretary of the Air Force, the only woman to head a military service, and a lauded educator and researcher. Dr. Widnall is known internationally for her research in fluid dynamics including aircraft turbulence and spiraling air flows. She is also a master teacher at MIT and has held the positions of Department Chair, Associate Provost, and Institute Professor. Among her many accolades, Dr. Widnall has won the 1998 Goddard Award from the National Space Club, the 1993 National Academy of Engineering Distinguished Service Award, the ASME Applied Mechanics Award, and the Outstanding Achievement Award in 1975, from the Society of Women Engineers.

    75. Gliding
    Pioneers include George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, Octave Chanute (1832–1910), andthe Wright brothers, the lastnamed perfecting gliding technique in 1902.
    http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001521.html
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    Or search the encyclopaedia: gliding Gliding in Northamptonshire, England. As well as being a popular sport in its own right, gliding is one of the cheapest ways of learning to fly. There are around 100 active gliding clubs in the UK.
    A paraglider in the air. The sport of hang-gliding was pioneered in Germany in the 1890s by Otto Lilienthal, but only became popular in the 1970s, after Francis Rogallo invented a light, kitelike wing constructed from fabric and aluminium tubing. First developed in the 1980s, paragliding substitutes an elongated parachute for the kite wing, but otherwise the aeronautical principles are the same.
    Soaring
    Long cross-country flights

    These are usually accomplished by the use of thermals. The glider first gains height in a thermal, then glides, gradually losing height, to the next thermal, where the process is repeated. By this method, which requires great skill and judgement of weather conditions, sailplanes may fly several hundred kilometres. Launching
    A sailplane must be given an intitial impetus by an external force in order for it to reach a speed sufficient to keep it in the air. Launching may be by rubber catapult from a hilltop (in the UK, the only remaining site for catapult launches is Long Mynd in Shropshire), by aircraft tow (the towing cable is released by the glider pilot when sufficient height has been gained), or by winch launching where the glider is attached to a winch with a reel of wire (when the wire is retracted the glider is launched like a kite). Once in the air, speed is maintained by depressing the nose and thus losing height in relation to the surrounding air.

    76. 100 Years Of Flight.
    Octave Chanute (1832 1910) In 1896 an historic glider flight inthe Indiana Dunes signaled the dawn of aviation. In command was
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    Before Powered Flight The Men Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo, born in Vinci, Italy, possessed a genius which went far beyond simply being a remarkable artist. He was, perhaps, the first European interested in a practical solution to flight. Italian Jesuit Father Francesco de Lana While some were dreaming of flying like a bird, others preferred to take it one step at a time and simply try to lift into the air. The idea of using Archimedes’ buoyancy principle to rise in the atmosphere by creating an object lighter than the air it displaces had been introduced in 1670 by a Jesuit priest, Father Francesco de Lana of Brescia, Italy. ... Pioneering Women 100 Years of Flight Flight Planner Dept Dest Powered by AeroPlanner Low Airways High Airways RNAV Direct GPS Direct VOR's Altitude 00 ft True Air speed kts Fuel Burn per hour Calculate Wind We Carry these Die Cast Models

    77. World Almanac For Kids
    The Wrights were admirers of the writings and feats of the German engineer OttoLilienthal, the American engineer Octave Chanute (1832–1910), and other
    http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/inventions/wright.html
    EXPLORE ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT HISTORICAL BIRTHDAYS ... home WRIGHT, name of two American brothers who worked closely together in the early development of aeronautics. The Wrights invented and flew the first practical airplane.
    WRIGHT, Wilbur top West Side News, edited by Wilbur. Already successful printers, the brothers opened a bicycle repair shop and showroom in 1892, and three years later they began assembling bicycles with tools of their own invention. In 1903 the brothers constructed their first propeller, from original calculations; it was about 35 percent more effective than other propellers then available. They next built a 337-kg (750-lb) machine with a 12-hp motor in which, on Dec. 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, first Orville and then Wilbur made the first powered airplane flights in history. Despite public indifference they dedicated themselves to the development of better engines and planes. The site of the first flight, now the Wright Brothers National Memorial, is administered by the National Park Service. In 1908 Wilbur Wright set distance and altitude records in France. That same year the Wrights fulfilled a contract with the U.S. Army Signal Corps to produce a plane that could fly for 10 min at a speed of 64 km/hr (40 mph). They then toured Europe, where they were highly honored. Upon their return to the U.S. in 1909 they received further honors. Wilbur became president of the newly incorporated American Wright Co. He died in Dayton three years later, on May 30, 1912, of typhoid fever.

    78. The Evolution Of Flight. A Celebration
    By 1896, however, leadership in aeronautical research had passed to the UnitedStates, where pioneers like Octave Chanute (1832 1910) and Samuel Pierpont
    http://www.daviesharbour.com/aiaa/hist/us.html
    UNITED STATES:
    By: Tom D. Crouch
    Senior Curator
    National Air and Space Museum
    Smithsonian Institution The history of the airplane is rooted in several centuries of European research into the forces operating on a body immersed in a fluid stream, culminating in one hundred years of active flight experimentation, from the work of the Englishman Sir George Cayley (1773 - 1857), to that of the German gliding pioneer, Otto Lilienthal (1848 ­ 1896). By 1896, however, leadership in aeronautical research had passed to the United States, where pioneers like Octave Chanute (1832 - 1910) and Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834 - 1906) were setting the stage for the achievement of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On May 6, 1896, Langley, the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, succeeded in launching the first reasonably large, steam-powered model aircraft on flights of up to three quarters of a mile over the Potomac River. Later that year, Chanute, a prominent American civil engineer and internationally recognized authority on the problems of flight, led a band of experimenters into the sand dunes east of Chicago, IL, where they flew a series of gliders, including a very advanced biplane that pointed the way to the future of aircraft structures. Continued ...

    79. Premiers Vols
    Octave Chanute (1832- 1910) qui transforma les planeurs de Lilienthal en planeurs classiques.
    http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-renoir-limoges/site_renoir/technocol/1999-2000/b
    Les pionniers de l'aviation Sir George Cayley Le Planeur de Cayley Otto Lilienthal au cours de l'un de ses vols Eole III Santos Dumont avec le 14 bis - 3 925 m le 11 avril 1908 - 12 750 m le 30 mai 1908 - 24 125 m le 16 septembre 1908. Sommaire Page suivante

    80. AIP Niels Bohr Library
    Notable correspondents include Octave Chanute and WH Dines. Also photographs,reprints, and documents concerning the Dines pressure tube anemometer.
    http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!498~!0&profile=aipnb

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