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Found in 2 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

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

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