Found in 2 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Octave Chanute Papers
Identifier: MSS15560
Abstract
Civil engineer and aviation pioneer. The bulk of the collection relates to Chanute's experiments with gliders and his scientific and financial support of aeronautical pioneers. Other papers concern his career as a builder of railroads and his service as chief engineer of the Erie Railroad and railroads in Illinois and Kansas.
Dates
1807-1955; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1910)
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright Papers
Identifier: MSS46706
Abstract
Aviation pioneers and inventors. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, business accounts, legal papers, minutes, reports, printed matter, photographs, blueprints, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to the invention of the airplane and the development of aviation.
Dates
1809-1979; Majority of material found within 1900-1948