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Octave Chanute, November 2001- June 2002

Flights Before the Wrights


Notes


1. Chanute, Octave. 1908. The Evolution of the (Two-Surface) Flying Machine. Aeronautics 3 : 28.
2.

---. 1894. Progress in Flying Machines. New York : The American Engineer and Railroad Journal.

3. ---. 1860 - 1910. Pamphlets on Aeronautics. , University of Chicago, Special Collections.
4. ---. 1860-1910. Letterpress books, in The Papers of Octave Chanute. Washington, DC.
5. Forney, M.N., ed. Aeronautics. New York: American Engineer and Railroad Journal, assorted articles from 1893-94.
6. McFarland, Marvin W., ed. 1953. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, 1899-1948. 2 vols. New York; McGraw-Hill.
7. McMahon, John R. 1930. The Wright Brothers, Fathers of Flight. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.


Acknowledgments: Simine Short wrote the text and compiled the photographs for the exhibit.
The exhibit was organized by Barbara Kern and
Urszula Kerkhoven - John Crerar Library, University of Chicago.

We gratefully acknowledge all individuals and organizations who provided photos or images.

For more information on Octave Chanute please contact Simine Short at simajim@comcast.net

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please contact Barbara Kern at 773-702-8717 or bkern@midway.uchicago.edu.


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