Locomotive to aeromotive : Octave Chanute and the transportation revolution / Simine Short ; foreword by Tom D. Crouch.

9780252036316
025203631X

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

English

xviii, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

TA140.C425 S56 2011

629.04092 B

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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