Background
Octave Chanute, the son of Joseph and Eliza Chanute, was born on February 18, 1832, in Paris, France. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1838.
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Progress in flying machines. Being a Facsimile of The Whole of The First 1894 Edition including original illustrations
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Progress in Flying Machines (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
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This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893. Written by a distinguished aviation pioneer, it analyzes virtually every experimental flight of the era. These data on flight control and equilibrium were crucial to the early designs of the Wright Brothers. 90 illustrations.
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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 (Classic Reprint)
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Octave Chanute
Edit ProfileEducation
Octave was educated in private schools in New York City.
Career
Chanute began his career with employment by the Hudson River Railroad, and from 1853 to 1863 served in various capacities with Western railroads. From 1863 to 1867 he was chief engineer of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. In the two years 1867-1868 he planned and superintended the construction of the first bridge across the Missouri River, at Kansas City. He subsequently constructed several railroads in Kansas and from 1873 to 1883 he was in private practise as a consulting engineer, mainly on the construction of iron railroad bridges. But though his successful career as a civil engineer brought him many distinctions, his main claim to fame rests on his work in aerial navigation.
The honor of the first scientific gliding experiments made in the United States probably belongs to him. The great exponents of gliding, who really learned how flight could be accomplished, at great personal risk paved the way for the achievements of the Wright brothers. The famous Germans, Otto and Gustav Lilienthal, began their gliding experiments in 1867. Pilcher brought the art to England. From the year 1889, Chanute devoted to aerodynamic theory the greater part of his energies, studying Lilienthal’s experiments very carefully. In the year before Lilienthal’s death, he himself began to make gliding flights.
In 1896 and 1897, he and his assistants made hundreds of glides from a hill ninety-five feet high on the sand dunes of Dune Park, near Lake Michigan. The courage of a man of sixty in undertaking such work is remarkable. In a truly scientific spirit, Chanute tabulated the results of all his experiments and made many notes on the strength and variations of air currents. His actual glides through the air were less impressive and daring than those of Lilienthal and Pilcher, but he had a better scientific training, and more ability as a designer. He was also an acute observer. The airplane of to-day lands tail low. Chanute learned this practise by watching the sparrow. “When the latter approaches the street, he throws his body back, tilts his outspread wings nearly square to the course, and on the cushion of air thus encountered he stops his speed and drops lightly to the ground. So do all birds. We tried it with misgivings, but found it perfectly effective. ”
Achievements
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Octave Chanute became prominent in the engineering profession and as a pioneer in aviation. He gained international recognition for his contributions to the study of aeronautics. His work “Progress in Flying Machines” was the first paper on aviation research and became a guidebook for aviators. He was also responsible for the design and construction of the Chicago Stock Yards, Kansas City Stockyards, and the Hannibal Bridge.
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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 (Classic Reprint)
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Progress in flying machines. Being a Facsimile of The Whole of The First 1894 Edition including original illustrations
(One of the most important books in the history of aviatio...)
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Pocket-book of aeronautics
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Progress in Flying Machines (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
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- The Chanute-Mouillard correspondence, April 16, 1890 to May 20, 1897, on the subject of flight
- The evolution of the "two-surface" flying machine
- Aerial Navigation. Contained in The Popular Science Monthly A Scientific Monthly, Volume 64, Issue 5 pages 385-393.
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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 (Classic Reprint)
Membership
Chanute was a president of the Aero Club of Illinois.
Connections
On March 12, 1857, Chanute married Annie James of Peoria.
References
- The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute
- A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905: American's and the Airplane, 1875-1905
- Octave Chanute, Aviation Pioneer: Chanute Field, Illinois
- Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter R. Borneman (2010-09-28)
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Nationality
American