Flights Before the Wrights: Octave Chanute, Chicago aeronautical pioneer, engineer, teacher

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  • Introduction and About the Exhibit
  • Acknowledgements
  • Rights and Reproductions
  • Coming to America
  • Engineering
  • Accomplishments
  • Aeronautics
  • World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
  • Spreading the Word
  • The Next Step
  • Building and Testing Gliders
  • Lilienthal-Type Machine
  • Katydid
  • "How Does it Feel to Fly?"
  • The Experiments Continued
  • 1896 Chanute-Type Biplane
  • Would Be Aviators Contacted Him
  • The Wright Brothers
  • The Last Major Article by Chanute
  • Highlights from Aviation History
  • Space

Acknowledgments


We would like to thank the following people and organizations:

Kathleen Zar, Director of the Science Libraries Division, University of Chicago

Alan Brown, NASA, Dryden Flight Research Center

Chicago Public Library

Chicago Historical Society

Leonard Bruno, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division

Tom Crouch, National Air & Space Museum

Paul W. Dees, Boeing Aircraft Co., Seattle, WA

John M. Dumoulin, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Edwards Air Force Base

Marianne Higgins, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Urszula Kerkhoven, University of Chicago Library

Jim Koepnick, Experimental Aircraft Association Museum

The John Crerar Library Staff

Learning Technology Group, University of Chicago

Curt Lewis, Chicagoland Glider Council

Library Development Office, University of Chicago

Library Society, University of Chicago

Trisha Lundquist, Experimental Aircraft Association Museum

Paul McCutcheon, National Air & Space Museum

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Jeff Oaks, University of Indianapolis

Betty Reneker, Crerar Library Associates

Charles J. Sebesta

Jim Short, Chicagoland Glider Council

Simine Short, National Soaring Museum

Karen Sodomick, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Derek Wang, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Maggie White, Western Society of Engineers

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

A special thank you to Kathleen Zar, Director of the Science Libraries, for her contributions including support, guidance and encouragement.

Chanute in flight

Flights Before the Wrights: Octave Chanute, Chicago aeronautical pioneer, engineer, teacher
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