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Octave Chanute (
18 February 1832 -
November 23 1910) was a French-born United States railroad engineer and
aviation pioneer. He provided the
Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicise their flying experiments.
Railroad Engineering
from 1908 postcardOctave Chanute was widely considered a brilliant and innovative railroad engineer. During his career he designed and constructed the country's two biggest stock yards -- Union Stock Yards (1865) and Kansas City Stockyards (1871). He designed and built the Hannibal Bridge which was the first bridge to cross the Missouri River when it opened in Kansas City, Missouri in 1869. The bridge was to establish Kansas City as the dominant city in the region. He also designed the
Illinois River rail bridge at Peoria, Illinois, and the
Genesee River Gorge rail bridge near
Portageville, New York.
Chanute invented a system for pressure treating rail ties and telephone poles with
creosote to preserve them. He also introduced the railroad date nail into the United States - a simple and efficient way of recording the age of railroad ties and other wooden structures by date stamping the heads of nails.
Aviation
. USA, 1896.Chanute first became interested in aviation during a visit to Europe in 1875. When he retired from his engineering business in 1889, he decided to devote his time to furthering the new science of aviation.
Following his systematic engineering background, Chanute first collected all the data that he could find from flight experimenters around the world. He published this as a series of articles first published in
The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893, and collected together in
Progress in Flying Machine in 1894. This was the first organised, written collection of aviation research.
At the
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Chanute organised a highly successful International Conference on Aerial Navigation.
Chanute was too old to attempt to fly himself. However, he worked in partnership with younger experimenters, including
Augustus Herring and William Avery (aviator). In 1896 and 1897 Chanute, Herring and Avery tested History of hang gliding based on designs by German aviator Otto Lilienthal, as well as hang gliders of their own design, on the shores of Lake Michigan in what is now Gary, Indiana not far from Chicago.
These experiments convinced Chanute that the best way to achieve extra lift without a prohibitive increase in weight was to stack several wings one above the other. Chanute invented the "strut-wire" braced structure that would be used in all biplanes of the future.
Chanute corresponded with many early aviators, including
Louis Mouillard, Gabriel Voisin,
John J. Montgomery,
Louis Blériot and
Alberto Santos Dumont. In 1897 Chanute started a correspondence with British aviator Percy Pilcher. Following Chanute's ideas, Pilcher designed a triplane, but he was killed in a glider crash before he could build it.
Chanute was in contact with the Wright brothers from 1900, when Wilbur Wright wrote to him after reading
Progress in Flying Machines. Chanute helped to publicise the Wright brothers' work, and provided consistent encouragement, making several visits to their camp near Kitty Hawk.
Chanute freely shared his knowledge about aviation with anyone who was interested and expected others to do the same. This led to friction with the Wright brothers, who wanted to protect their invention with patents. The friendship was still impaired when Chanute died in 1910, although Wilbur Wright delivered the eulogy at Chanute's funeral.
The town of
Chanute, Kansas is named after him, as well as the former Chanute Air Force Base near
Rantoul, Illinois, which was decommissioned in 1993. The former Base, now turned to peacetime endeavors, includes the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, detailing the history of aviation and of Chanute Air Force base.
In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight,
Aviation Week & Space Technology named Chanute 38th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace.http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11860
Quotes
"Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men." Octave Chanute
Progress in Flying Machines
See also
Timeline
- 1832 - born Octave Alexandre Chanut, son of Joseph and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanut, in Paris, France.
- 1838 - father Joseph Chanut accepts a position as Vice-president and History Professor at Jefferson College, north of New Orleans.
- 1846 - Chanut family move to New York. The month long steamship voyage leaves a lasting impression on Octave, giving him a fascination with modern technology.
- 1848 - takes a job as chainman with the Hudson River Railroad.
- 1849 - starts training as a railroad civil engineer.
- 1854 - becomes an American citizen. He adds the letter "e" to his family name and drops his middle name.
- 1857 - marries Annie Riddel James.
- 1863 - appointed Chief Engineer of the Chicago and Alton Railroad.
- 1869 - Platted the town of Lenexa, Kansas.
- 1889 - retires from railroad engineering.
- 1894 - publishes Progress in Flying Machines.
- 1910 - dies in Chicago.
References
- Chanute, Octave (1894, reprinted 1998) Progress in Flying Machines Dover ISBN 0-486-29981-3
Notes
External links
Octave Chanute (18 February 1832 - November 23
1910) was a French-born United States
railroad engineer and
aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicise their flying experiments.
Railroad Engineering
from 1908 postcardOctave Chanute was widely considered a brilliant and innovative railroad engineer. During his career he designed and constructed the country's two biggest stock yards -- Union Stock Yards (1865) and
Kansas City Stockyards (1871). He designed and built the
Hannibal Bridge which was the first bridge to cross the Missouri River when it opened in
Kansas City, Missouri in 1869. The bridge was to establish Kansas City as the dominant city in the region. He also designed the
Illinois River rail bridge at Peoria, Illinois, and the Genesee River Gorge rail bridge near Portageville, New York.
Chanute invented a system for pressure treating rail ties and telephone poles with creosote to preserve them. He also introduced the railroad date nail into the United States - a simple and efficient way of recording the age of railroad ties and other wooden structures by date stamping the heads of nails.
Aviation
.
USA, 1896.Chanute first became interested in aviation during a visit to Europe in 1875. When he retired from his engineering business in 1889, he decided to devote his time to furthering the new science of aviation.
Following his systematic engineering background, Chanute first collected all the data that he could find from flight experimenters around the world. He published this as a series of articles first published in
The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893, and collected together in
Progress in Flying Machine in 1894. This was the first organised, written collection of aviation research.
At the
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Chanute organised a highly successful International Conference on Aerial Navigation.
Chanute was too old to attempt to fly himself. However, he worked in partnership with younger experimenters, including Augustus Herring and
William Avery (aviator). In 1896 and 1897 Chanute, Herring and Avery tested
History of hang gliding based on designs by German aviator
Otto Lilienthal, as well as hang gliders of their own design, on the shores of Lake Michigan in what is now Gary, Indiana not far from Chicago.
These experiments convinced Chanute that the best way to achieve extra lift without a prohibitive increase in weight was to stack several wings one above the other. Chanute invented the "strut-wire" braced structure that would be used in all biplanes of the future.
Chanute corresponded with many early aviators, including Louis Mouillard,
Gabriel Voisin, John J. Montgomery, Louis Blériot and
Alberto Santos Dumont. In 1897 Chanute started a correspondence with British aviator Percy Pilcher. Following Chanute's ideas, Pilcher designed a triplane, but he was killed in a glider crash before he could build it.
Chanute was in contact with the Wright brothers from 1900, when Wilbur Wright wrote to him after reading
Progress in Flying Machines. Chanute helped to publicise the Wright brothers' work, and provided consistent encouragement, making several visits to their camp near
Kitty Hawk.
Chanute freely shared his knowledge about aviation with anyone who was interested and expected others to do the same. This led to friction with the Wright brothers, who wanted to protect their invention with patents. The friendship was still impaired when Chanute died in 1910, although Wilbur Wright delivered the eulogy at Chanute's funeral.
The town of Chanute, Kansas is named after him, as well as the former
Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul, Illinois, which was decommissioned in 1993. The former Base, now turned to peacetime endeavors, includes the
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, detailing the history of aviation and of Chanute Air Force base.
In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the
Wright Brothers' flight,
Aviation Week & Space Technology named Chanute 38th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace.http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11860
Quotes
"Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men." Octave Chanute
Progress in Flying Machines
See also
Timeline
- 1832 - born Octave Alexandre Chanut, son of Joseph and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanut, in Paris, France.
- 1838 - father Joseph Chanut accepts a position as Vice-president and History Professor at Jefferson College, north of New Orleans.
- 1846 - Chanut family move to New York. The month long steamship voyage leaves a lasting impression on Octave, giving him a fascination with modern technology.
- 1848 - takes a job as chainman with the Hudson River Railroad.
- 1849 - starts training as a railroad civil engineer.
- 1854 - becomes an American citizen. He adds the letter "e" to his family name and drops his middle name.
- 1857 - marries Annie Riddel James.
- 1863 - appointed Chief Engineer of the Chicago and Alton Railroad.
- 1869 - Platted the town of Lenexa, Kansas.
- 1889 - retires from railroad engineering.
- 1894 - publishes Progress in Flying Machines.
- 1910 - dies in Chicago.
References
- Chanute, Octave (1894, reprinted 1998) Progress in Flying Machines Dover ISBN 0-486-29981-3
Notes
External links
Octave Chanute, November 2001- June 2002
Octave Chanute - 1832-1910. Chanute’s nature was mild, considerate to others, kindly, generous, patient, and just. Yet while almost self-effacing ...
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There were four cases in total each dealing with an aspect of Octave Chanute's life and history of aviation.
Octave Chanute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Octave Chanute, February 18, 1832 - November 23, 1910) was a French-born American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and ...
Octave Chanute
Illustrated essay on Chanute's experiments with gliders and contributions to aviation.
Octave Chanute
Concentrates on experiments with early flight. Includes the full text of the Chanute - Mouillard correspondence, and Chanute's 1894 publication entitled Progress in Flying Machines ...
Octave Chanute - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Octave Chanute
Chanute, Octave (1832-1910) French-born US aerial navigator whose family emigrated to the USA in 1838.
Chanute, Octave definition of Chanute, Octave in the Free Online ...
Chanute, Octave (1832–1910) aerial navigator; born in Paris, France. Brought to America when his family emigrated in 1838, he went on to a successful career as a civil engineer ...
Octave Chanute definition of Octave Chanute in the Free Online ...
Chanute, Octave (1832–1910) aerial navigator; born in Paris, France. Brought to America when his family emigrated in 1838, he went on to a successful career as a civil engineer ...
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum
Offering a museum tour, aircraft photographs, calendar of events, exhibits, history, educational programs and gift shop.
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Octave Chanute1832-1910 ... 1902 Chanute triplane glider, oscillating wings. Collection of Jean-Pierre Lauwers
