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Title
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Proceedings of Societies--The Sewerage of Kansas City
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Description
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Article about the sewer system of Kansas City by noted civil engineer Octave Chanute, with suggestions for improvement such as keeping storm water and house sewage separate for sanitary reasons.
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Date
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1884-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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File contains a copy of a memorial booklet for Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French immigrant in New York by 1838 from Paris, working with railroads by 1849 and eventually all around the nation, including the design and oversight of the Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City in 1866, and later developing prototypes for the first successful airplane of the Wright brothers.
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Date
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1905-03-25
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Descriptions of and references to Octave Chanute, engineer of early railroad bridges and other constructions, including the Hannibal Bridge at Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kinzua Viaduct in Pennsylvania for the New York office of the Erie Railroad.
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Date
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1905-06-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "the friend, mentor, and most important correspondent of the Wrights [the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur]." Description of Chanute's life and career, moving to America in 1839 from France, beginning his engineering career in 1849 on the Hudson River Railroad, continuing with railroad bridges, including the first to cross the Missouri River, Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge in 1869, then turning to New York rapid transit, wood preservation research, and aviation or flying machines in the 1870s. He returned to Kansas City in 1883, then moving to Chicago in 1889, continuing aeronautical research, including flying machine designs and publications on the subject, as well as important correspondence with the Wright brothers during their invention of the first successful flying airplane in 1903, with several photos and descriptions of Octave Chanute throughout both volumes of the book.
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Date
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1953
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "builder of Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge," mentor to the Wright brothers in their invention of the airplane, and nationally prominent civil engineer also reponsible for the New York City Rapid Transit system.
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Date
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2000
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Photo and biographical description of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "a civil engineer involved in bridge building, glider design, and flying machines," native to France and emigrating to Kansas City in 1867, designing the Hannibal Bridge and Stockyards here before experimenting with and writing about early aircrafts, including advising the Wright brothers before their invention of the airplane.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
