You've probably never heard of him, but if it weren’t for the work of Octave Chanute, those shiny streetcars might be climbing the hills of Saint Joseph, Missouri, not Kansas City. Instead of ...

Editor’s note: On Dec.11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the Union. Lake, Porter and Newton counties originally were one, but on Jan. 28, 1836, Porter County was created. A year later, on ...

When pilot Ken Rapier flew his red-tail airplane over the crowd gathered on the Ivy Tech campus in Gary, he was greeted with red, white and blue flags waving on the ground. The occasion was the recent ...

In May 1899, Wilbur Wright who with his brother Orville had become interested in manned flight, wrote a letter to the French–born civil engineer Octave Chanute who lived in Chicago, asking advice on ...

We recently got an announcement that a ca.-1912 hang glider, modeled after an 1896 design by Wright-brother mentor Octave Chanute, had been installed in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, ...

STORY SO FAR: Wilbur Wright is experimenting with kites and gliders. Needing advice, he has sent a letter to the well-known engineer Octave Chanute. “You look like you found something,” Orville said.

The collection consists of two manuscripts by Octave Chanute, "Conditions and Success in the Design of Flying Machines" and "Recent Experiments in Gliding Flight;" and three series of correspondence.

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STORY SO FAR: Wilbur and Orville are back in Dayton after testing a glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. “We’re going back next year,” Orville told Katharine. “Back to Kitty Hawk.” “To fly your ...