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Title
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Henry Haskell and Katharine Wright
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Description
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Aviation pioneers,Orville and Wilbur Wright, had a sister Katharine who eventually married local Kansas City Star,editor Henry Haskell. The book has several pages on the relationship between Haskell and the Wrights, especially Orville Wright. The marriage was from 1926-1929 with Katharine dying March 2, 1929.
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Date
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1905-06-25
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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
