@article{434249,
      recid = {434249},
      author = {Short, Simine,},
      title = {Locomotive to aeromotive : Octave Chanute and the  transportation revolution /},
      publisher = {University of Illinois Press,},
      address = {Urbana ;},
      pages = {xviii, 341 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave  Chanute designed America's two largest stockyards, created  innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas  City Bridge over the previously 'unbridgeable' Missouri  River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose  collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems  encouraged other experimenters, including the Wright  brothers."--Book jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434249},
}