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Octave Chanute
I. ... Octave Alexandre Chanute was born on February 18th, 1832 in Paris, France. ... He became Octave Chanute. ... In 1846, while still a boy, Octave and his father moved to New York City. ... As a youngster, Chanute had ideas of inventing a faster means of transportation. ... Chanute received his education in a New York boarding school. ...
Thesis : In the decade before the Wright Brothers’ historic 1903 flight, French-born, American Civil Engineer Octave Chanute developed and flew the world’s most advanced aircraft. ... Chanute had a long and distinguished career as a civil engineer in the transportation field. ... Chanute was a pioneer builder and modern thinker of the American railroad system. ... Chanute then plotted villages along these newly established railroad lines. ...
In 1889 Chanute retired from engineering and began concentrating on his second career, Aviation
B. ... Octave Chanute was an aviation enthusiast whose standing in the aeronautical world of the time was well established. ... Inspired by the work of the German glider experimenter Otto Lilienthal, Chanute began to design gliders capable of carrying human beings into the air. ... In command was Octave Chanute. ... Chanute and his team then spent the next month building a new glider, and, in 1896, they tested it on the Indiana Dunes.
Approximate Word count = 931
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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