TY  - GEN
AU  - Chanute,Octave
AU  - Niehaus,Earl F.
TI  - Octave Chanute papers,
KW  - Ader, Clément,
KW  - Avery, William A.
KW  - Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth,
KW  - Bell, Alexander Graham,
KW  - Cabot, Samuel,
KW  - Hargrave, Lawrence,
KW  - Herring, Augustus Moore,
KW  - Huffaker, Edward C.
KW  - Kress, Wilhelm,
KW  - Langley, S. P.
KW  - Lilienthal, Otto,
KW  - Maxim, Hiram S.
KW  - Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.
KW  - Montgomery, John J.
KW  - Mouillard, Louis-Pierre,
KW  - Moy, Thomas
KW  - Pilcher, Percy
KW  - Spratt, G. A.
KW  - Wright, Orville,
KW  - Wright, Wilbur,
KW  - Zahm, Albert Francis,
KW  - Erie Railroad Company
KW  - Jefferson College (Convent, La.)
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Aerodynamics
KW  - Bridges
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Missouri River
KW  - Gliders (Aeronautics)
KW  - Kites
KW  - Railroad engineering
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Railroad ties
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Kansas
KW  - Abilene
KW  - Railroads, Elevated
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Stockyards
KW  - Aviators
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Civil engineers
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition of letterbooks available; no. 14,845 (16,482); Microfilm edition only of Niehaus thesis; no. 16,562 (17,096); Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1975-1977; In part, photocopies (positive); [S.l.]
N2  - Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, articles, family papers, patents, kite diagrams, sketches, plans of Chanute's railroad bridge across the Missouri River, clippings, and photographs.  The bulk of the collection (1860-1910) relates to Chanute's experiments with gliders and his scientific and financial support of aeronautical pioneers.  Other papers concern his career as a builder of railroads, his service as chief engineer of the Erie Railroad and railroads in Illinois and Kansas, the laying out of the railroad line from Chicago to Abilene, Kan., his planning and building of the Chicago stockyards and the elevated railways of New York City, and his contribution to the technique of preserving wooden railroad ties.  Also includes thesis (1955) by Earl F. Niehaus on Jefferson College, Convent, La., of which Chanute's father was vice-president; Principal correspondents include Louis-Pierre Mouillard, G.A. Spratt, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright.  Other correspondents include Clément Ader, William A. Avery, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Cabot, Lawrence Hargrave, Augustus Moore Herring, Edward C. Huffaker, Wilhelm Kress, S.P. Langley, Otto Lilienthal, Hiram S. Maxim, Hermann W.L. Moedebeck, John J. Montgomery, Thomas Moy, Percy Pilcher, and Albert Francis Zahm
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998005
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998005.3
ER  -