21. NIE WORLD - Up In The Air (Chapter 7) Needing advice, he has sent a letter to the wellknown engineer Octave Chanute.On the Net Octave Alexander Chanute (1832-1910) Flights Before the Wrights. http://www.nieworld.com/special/upintheair/chapt7.htm

NIE Index: for Teachers for Students ... Resources Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN: Octave Chanute May-September 1900 Wilbur Wright is experimenting with kites and gliders. Needing advice, he has sent a letter to the well-known engineer Octave Chanute. 1. The brothers calculated that they would need a fifteen-mile-per-hour wind to keep their glider airborne for testing. Check the weather page in The News-Journal over the next month to see how many days would have been suitable for their test flight. 2. Clip ads and articles from The News-Journal showing popular vacation destinations. Sort them into 3 groups: those that might have leisure-time activities of interest to the brothers, those the brothers might have used to test their flying machines and those that would hold little or no interest for them. Then ask classmates, friends and family members to sort and compare your groups. On the Net: Octave Alexander Chanute (1832-1910) Flights Before the Wrights www.nieworld.com

22. The Star/The Bridge Rick Montgomery. Sources Pearl I. Young, Octave Chanute, 1832-1910 ABibliography, 1963. Chanute profile in Engineering News, May 23, 1891. http://www.kcstar.com/millennium/part4/stories/octave.htm

Sports Business FYI Local ... Showtime Eccentric Chanute left imprint on Kansas City Date: 10/20/97 15:56 Halfway into a life of wondrous achievements, though one largely forgotten, Octave Chanute moved to Kansas City in 1867 to design the first railroad bridge over the Missouri River. He had just turned 35. A self-trained civil engineer working for the railroads, Chanute immediately stood out in rough-hewn Kansas City. Born in Paris, he sported the French "imperial" look pointed mustache, hair tuft on his chin mimicking the emperor Napoleon III. Odder yet, he pondered the possibility of manned flight. Call him eccentric, but Chanute's impact on the fledgling town was solid: In an age when dozens of bridges collapsed yearly, his Kansas City creation the so-called Hannibal Bridge stood nearly five decades. He designed the Union Stock Yards. He platted the town of Lenexa. Chanute's work outside the area was even more impressive. When just 24, he led construction of what then was the longest railroad drawbridge in the world, over the Illinois River. At 43, as head of the American Society of Civil Engineers, his research into elevated railways helped form New York City's transit system. Returning to Kansas City in the 1880s, he published "The Sewerage of Kansas City," which urged town builders to resist combining rain water and "house refuse" in one system.

23. The Museum Of Flight In Seattle: Our Collections Octave Alexander Chanute (18321910) Chanute was born in France andemigrated to the United States at age six. As one of America http://www.museumofflight.org/collections/craftdisplay.html?ID=36

24. First Flight (Reason): American Treasures Of The Library Of Congress Earlier, in 1900, Wilbur Wright wrote to French aviation pioneer Octave Chanute (18321910)and expressed the belief that flight is possible to man and I http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr019.html

Home Overview Treasure Talks Object Checklist (Current) ... Credits Exhibition Sections: Top Treasures Memory Reason Imagination First Flight John T. Daniels (d. 1948) First Flight, December 17, 1903 Modern gelatin silver print from glass negative Orville Wright (1871-1948) Telegram to Bishop Milton Wright, December 17, 1903 Manuscript Division Orville Wright (1871-1948) Receipt of petition, U.S. Patent Office, March 14, 1903 Manuscript Division Orville Wright (1871-1948) Diary Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 ... Page 8 November 5 - December 19,1903 Manuscript Division Orville Wright (1871-1948) Diary Page 2 Page 3 September 23 - October 6,1903 Manuscript Division In 1900, Wilbur Wright wrote to his father expressing the hope of "achieving fame and fortune" from his and brother Orville's experiments in flight. Three years later, the brothers accomplished their first successful flight. As part of their systematic practice of photographing every prototype and test of their various flying machines, the Wrights persuaded an attendant from a nearby lifesaving station to snap Orville in full flight. After making two longer flights that day, the Wrights sent this telegram to their father, instructing him to "inform press." In his diary, seen here, Orville kept a thorough account of their experiments. This entry details their second successful flight.

25. The United States' History Of Flight By 1896, however, leadership in aeronautical research had passed to the UnitedStates, where pioneers like Octave Chanute (18321910) and Samuel Pierpont http://www.flight100.org/history/us.html

UNITED STATES 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 100 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 6 May 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, where they flew a series of gliders, including a very advanced biplane that pointed the way to the future of aircraft structures. Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948), the proprietors of a bicycle sales, repair, and manufacturing shop in Dayton, Ohio, wrote to the Smithsonian Institution and to Octave Chanute in 1899-1900, requesting information on aeronautics and announcing their decision to begin their own experiments. The Wrights were superb self-trained engineers who developed an extraordinarily successful research strategy that enabled them to overcome one set of challenging problems after another, the full extent of which few other experimenters had even suspected.

26. Resources.htm the exhibit Flight Before the Wrights Octave Chanute, Chicago. (In small lettersaeronautical pioneer, engineer, teacher.) Chanute (18321910) is one of http://facstaff.uindy.edu/~oaks/Resources.htm

Date Nail Resources The book: Date Nails and Railroad Tie Preservation In January, 1999 I published the most comprehensive book on nails ever published. It supercedes the 1976 work Date Nails Complete The volumes are paperback, plastic comb bound (like spiral bound), on standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper. It is Special Report #3, University of Indianapolis Archeology and Forensics Laboratory. Table of contents for Date Nails and Railroad Tie Preservation by Jeff Oaks Volume I Page Introduction History of railroad tie preservation Contents History of railroad tie preservation Tables Short biography of Octave Chanute Railroad listings A-H Volume II Railroad listings I-Y Index of railroads without entries Treatment company sets Shadow sets About the author Volume III Photographs of nails Introduction to the photographs Date nails showing the year only Letter nails Letter-number tie nails Letter number nails Single digit code nails Switch nails Pole height and depth nails Descriptions of some nails not shown Reverse listing Reverse listing Index of railroad initials Quick guide to shank markings The introduction contains detailed info on notation, a glossary, lists of treatment chemicals and processes, general nail collecting information, and the bibliography.

27. NNJan01.htm I was recently contacted by Simine Short, an aviation historian who is writing abiography of Octave Chanute. Chanute (18321910) was an accomplished engineer http://facstaff.uindy.edu/~oaks/NailNotes/NNJan01.htm

Nail NotesJanuary-March 2001 Subject: Nail Notes 1-9-01 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:13:54 -0600 Organization: University of Indianapolis In December I ran out of copies of the third printing of my book, so I ordered a fourth. They are in, so as of right now I have 96 copies left! For info on the book, and for nail info in general, visit my website at http://facstaff.uindy.edu/~oaks/DateNailInfo.htm Paul Zeiner's date nail discussion forum has a new look. The software works differently now, and all the old messages have been erased. Currently there are two new messages, so go to his site and leave your comments/wants/extras: http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/2591/ Did the Santa Fe use the rnd R (06) 31? Bill Bunch says yes, yet no one has told me that this is a Santa Fe nail since I published my first list in 1994! dadsrr@n-jcenter.com > sent me a photocopy of a letter written to him in 1971 by Bradley L. Peters, the Maine Central's Director of Publications. In the letter Peters states that the Maine Central began using date nails in 1930, and that for 1932 a plain roofing nail was used instead of a date nail. This

28. Bibliography Young, Pearl I. The Complete Writings of Octave Chanute (18321910) Consistingof Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Patents, Letters, and Notebooks. http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht810148.html

Home Search Browse About IPO ... Links The Impact of John Deere's Plow Aldrich, Darragh. The Story of John Deere, A Saga of American Industry . Minneapolis: McGill Lithograph, 1942. Ardrey, R. L. American Agricultural Implements: A Review of Invention and Development in the Agricultural Industry of the United States . Chicago: 1894. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, reprint, 1973. Arnold, Dave. Vintage John Deere . Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1995. Bell, Louise Price. Johnny Tractor and His Pals: A John Deere Storybook for Little Folks . Moline: John Deere and Co., 1988. Borgstrom, Georg. "Food and Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century." Technology in Western Civilization: The Emergence of Modern Industrial Society Earliest Times to 1900 . Volume 1, Kranzberg, Melvin and Pursell, Carroll W. Jr., eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967:408-24. Broehl Jr., Wayne G. John Deere's Company: A History of Deere and Company and its Times . New York: Doubleday and Co., 1984. Brunchey, Stuart. The Roots of American Economic Growth: An Essay in Social Causation, 1607-1861

29. Listing Of Authors Morgan, Jr., 1962, Editor Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881, Translator Cary, HenryFrancis, 1772-1844, Translator Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 Chater, Arthur G http://www.e-text.worldwide-library.org/editors_translators.htm

This is www.e-text.worldwide-library.org the e-text control site of the Worldwide-Library organization Index site Home site UK2- Test Library Find out about the WWL ... Go to master site index Select section required Home page for this site Listing of authors e-texts we hold Other identified texts ... Texts we can't have Index of Authors, Editors and Translators Information Authors Editors and translators Links See the information page for details on this table. Note:- red items may be in wrong place in listing. Editors and translators Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Allen, Nathan H., Asst. Editor Altemus, Henry, Editor Armour, M. A. (Margaret-Ann), Translator Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904, Translator Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898, Translator Babington, B. G. (Benjamin Guy), 1794-1866, Translator Bache, Constance, 1846-1903, Translator La Mara, 1837-1927 Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907, Editor Baines, William Peter, 1878- , Translator

30. PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Title - F AUTHOR Russell, Thomas Herbert, 18621947 _ Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 LANGUAGEEnglish SUBJECT Aeronautics _ Aircraft PG ENTRY 907 - POSTING DATE May http://www.informika.ru/text/books/gutenb/gutind/TEMP/i-_f4.html

31. Octave Chanute( Octave Chanute (18321910). Chanute byl jedna z najwazniejszychówczesnych postaci lotnictwa, chociaz najpierw pracowal przez http://r-max.home.staszic.waw.pl/octave.htm

Octave Chanute Chanute by³ jedn¹ z najwa¿niejszych ówczesnych postaci lotnictwa, chocia¿ najpierw pracowa³ przez d³ugie lata jako ceniony budowniczy mostów. Ide¹ latania zainteresowa³ siê dopiero w wieku lat szeœædziesiêciu, kiedy postanowi³ poœwiêciæ swój maj¹tek i resztê ¿ycia badaniom statków powietrznych ciê¿szych od powietrza. Wydana przezeñ w 1894 r. wspomniana ju¿ praca Rozwój maszyn lataj¹cych sta³a siê bodŸcem dla pionierów aeronautyki, których wysi³ki oceniano czêsto jako beznadziejne lub zupe³nie niepotrzebne. Octave Chanute zaprojektowa³ tak¿e 12 typów szybowców, na których jego asystenci (konstruktor, z uwagi na doœæ podesz³y wiek, ju¿ nie lata³) odbyli kilkaset lotów, w tym jeden na odleg³oœæ 110 m. Po wielu doœwiadczeniach Chanute doszed³ do przekonania, ¿e zachowanie równowagi szybowca za pomoc¹ ruchów cia³a (tak postêpowa³ Lilienthal) jest niewystarczaj¹ce, zastosowa³ wiêc w swym aparacie - po raz pierwszy w dziejach lotnictwa - stery: kierunkowy i wysokoœci. Stanowi³o to bez w¹tpiema kolejny, wa¿ny krok cz³owieka w budowaniu samolotu, nad którym mo¿na panowaæ.

32. Page1 Octave Chanute (18321910) was another famous early inventor of glides.Chanute and his team built and flew many glides. They were http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/Fatinah/page3.htm

The History of the Discovery of the First Flying Machine People created many elaborate flying machines in their attempts to see the world from the sky. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the world's great thinkers and first serious student of the science of aeronautics. Had it not been for the breadth of his genius and the resulting variety of his interests, he might have designed the first man-carrying glider. Leonardo saw the difference between flapping flight and gliding flight. In one of his notebooks he wrote: "Beginnings of things are often the cause of great results. Thus we may see a small almost imperceptible movement of the rudder turn a ship of marvelous size and loaded with a very heavy cargo... so in those birds which can support themselves above the course of the winds without beating their wings, a slight movement of the wing or tail, serving them to enter below or above the wind, suffices to prevent their fall". Here, in Leonardo's own words, was the key to successful gliding which, in turn, was to become the key to successful manned flight. Here was a description of the importance of delicate controls. But, a far as we know, he designed only flapping machines. Leonardo studied wind currents and the effects of varying temperatures on the movement of air. His notebooks are filled with drawings of the structures of the wings and tails of various birds, man-carrying machines and devices for the testing of wings. Leonardo's notes on bird and mechanical flight were not studied by other pioneers until the nineteenth century.

33. Indiana Historical Society SC 2438. Chaney, John (John Crawford), 18531940. Papers, 1883-1942. M 0045. Chanute,Octave, 1832-1910. Letter, 1904. SC 2642. Chapin, Lorenzo. Letter. SC 0186. http://indianahistory.org/library/library.php?page=6

34. Aviationboom - Pioneers Main 1966 Gaston René Caudron 18821915, 1884-1959 Sir George Cayley 1773-1857 ClydeCessna 1880-1954 Sir Roy Chadwick 1893-1947 Octave Chanute 1832-1910 Juan de http://www.aviationboom.com/pioneers/

AVMART.COM, ONLINE PILOT SHOP Site Map Contact Us ... Tell a Friend! DEPARTMENTS Airlines Airports Air Traffic Control Aviation Disasters ... X-Plane AVIATION PIONEERS SEARCH SHOP GO HOME! This section will help you get a glimpse of some of the most famous aviation pioneers who have helped shape the industry. Please click on a name to learn more about the pioneer in question. Click on a letter for quicker access: A B C D ... Y Sources Ultimate Aircraft by Philip Jarrett Google Images Others indicated when required A Sir John Alcock Oleg Antonov B General Italo Balbo Captain Frank S. Barnwell Jean Gardner Batten Alexander Graham Bell ... Giuseppe Mario Bellanca Noel Pemberton Billing 1881-1948 Mark Birkigt 1878-1953 Ronald Eric Bishop 1903-1989 Robert Blackburn Marcel Bloch 1892-1986 William E. Boeing 1881-1956 Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke 1891-1916 Gabriel Borel (birth and death unknown) Air Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker 1877-1930 Louis Breguet 1880-1955 Paul W.S. Bulman 1896-1963

35. AeroSpaceHistory.com Translate this page Vers 1896 les Etats-Unis prirent le relais de la recherche aéronautique, grâceà des pionniers comme Octave Chanute (1832-1910) et Samuel Pierpont Langley http://www.aerospacehistory.com/pays/masquepays.asp?Pays=Etats-Unis

36. AeroSpaceHistory.com Translate this page George Cayley (1773-1857). Clyde Cessna (1879-1954). Octave Chanute (1832-1910).Glenn H. Curtiss (1878-1930). Copyright © 2001-2003 Air Spirit Studios. http://www.aerospacehistory.com/biographies/alphabet.asp?Lettre=C

37. What Makes An Airplane Fly Lilienthal (German), Percy Pilcher (England) He also lost his life in a glider clashedthree years after Lilienthal, and Octave Chanute (American)(18321910). http://www.thaitechnics.com/fly/intro.html

38. Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, 1861-1912. Papers: Guide. 2 letters 1912. Carnegie Institution. 14 letters 19021906. Chanute, Octave,1832-1910. 1 letter 1909. Clayton, Henry Helm, 1861-. 1 letter 1905. http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou00619.html

bMS Am 1271-1271.5 Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, 1861-1912. Papers: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 1271 Call No.: MS Am 1271.1 Call No.: MS Am 1271.2 Call No.: MS Am 1271.3 Call No.: MS Am 1271.4 Call No.: MS Am 1271.5 Creator: Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, 1861-1912. Title: Papers, Date(s): Quantity: 6 boxes, 4v. (4 linear ft.) Abstract: Notes and correspondence of American meteorologist Abbott Lawrence Rotch. Administrative Information Acquisition Information: Gift in Memory of Prof. and Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch; received: 1942. Historical Note Rotch, a meteorologist, founded and was director of Blue Hill Observatory, near Boston, Mass. He took the earliest American measurements of cloud height and velocities. In 1906, Rotch became the first professor of meteorology at Harvard. In cooperation with Teisserenc de Bort, he sent an expedition to explore the atmosphere above the tropical ocean, 1905-1906; ascended Mont Blanc six times, reaching the summit thrice; and ballooned above Paris in 1889. Organization Organized into the following series: I. bMS Am 1271: Graduate and undergraduate notes

39. The Airplane The Wrights were admirers of the writings and feats of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal,the American engineer Octave Chanute (18321910), and other glider http://www.bergen.org/ECEMS/class/air.htm

The Airplane Invented by: Wilbur and Orville Wright Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) was born in Millville, Indiana, on April 16, 1867. As boys, he and his younger brother Orville made simple mechanical toys, and in 1888 they built a large printing press. The following year they began to publish the Dayton, Ohio, 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. The Wrights were admirers of the writings and feats of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal, the American engineer Octave Chanute (1832-1910), and other glider experimenters. In September 1900 at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they tested their own glider. Carefully recording their findings, they concluded that the previously accepted aeronautical data on which they had relied were erroneous. In 1901 the brothers tested the effects of air pressure on more than 200 wing surfaces and in 1902, executing almost 1000 glides in a new glider, they confirmed their Kitty Hawk data. At Kitty Hawk the Wrights also proved to their satisfaction that planes could be balanced best by pilots, rather than by built-in engineering devices; this was the major idea covered by the first Wright patent. 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 December 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.

40. Newsletter Archives Of The Niagara Windriders Kitefliers Association DaVinci's designs); Octave Chanute 18321910)- a French born Chicagoengineer (biplane glider wing development); Samuel Pierpoint http://www.windriders.niagara.com/content/newsl-archive-09-27-02.html

Niagara Windriders Kitefliers Association Newsletter of September 27, 2002 Friday, Sept, 27, 2003 Next NWKA Club Fly - This Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002 12:00 noon to 4:30 p.m. at Lakeview Park - Port Colborne This will be our second last club fly of the season. The weather promises to be bright and fresh after the rain blows through from the remnants of 'Isadore'. Some interesting things will be happening in the sky: Dan Flintjer of the Great Lakes Kitefliers Society (WNY) is going to train five (5) large Cody kites and attempt some interesting effects with the heavy lifting power of the combined Codys. Gary Mark from TKF will be present with his Peter Lynn Octopus and some of the other spectacular kites that he and Michelle have in their collection. Perhaps a train or two will take to the air and maybe even a stack of 12 Dyna Kites. And lots of fabulous kites from all the NWKA club members. Plan to attend - we are looking forward to seeing everyone! It promises to be a very nice salute to early Autumn . AKA Convention Begins in Ocean City, MD:

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