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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 (1)
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
Progress in Flying Machines (1894) reprint publ. Dover (1998)
