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Octave Chanute
(18 Feb 1832 - 23 Nov 1910)
American aeronautical engineer , a pioneer in the field, whose work and interests profoundly influenced Orville and Wilbur Wright and the invention of the airplane. Octave Chanute was a successful engineer who took up the invention of the airplane as a hobby following his early retirement.
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Science Quotes by Octave Chanute (2 quotes)
If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.
— Octave Chanute
In Progress in Flying Machines (1894), 218.
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.
— Octave Chanute
Concluding paragraph, Progress in Flying Machines (1894), 269.
Quotes by others about Octave Chanute (1)
By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.
Writing in Aeronautics in Jan 1911 about Chanute's death, collected in Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Volume Two 1906-1948 (1953), 1013.
See also:
- 18 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Chanute's birth.
- Aerial Navigation by Octave Chanute - from Popular Science Monthly (Mar 1904).
- Large color picture of Octave Chanute (800 x 1000 px)
- Progress in Flying Machines, by Octave Chanute. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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