Some data on the invention of the airplane and the new airplane industry
Appendix F. Counts of letters amongst these innovators
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Appendix F. Counts of letters amongst these innovatorsChanute maintained intense correspondents with many aeronautical innovators, notably the Wright brothers both before and after their major inventions. He visited with Langley, Santos-Dumont, Ferber, Huffaker, Herring, Maxim and others. He corresponded by letter with Hargrave, Mouillard, Montgomery, Cabot, Zahm, Kress, Wenham, Moy, Pilcher, Means, the Lilienthals, and the Wrights. These letters almost always referred to experiments, experimenters, or related technical subjects. Here are counts of his exchanges with the Wright brothers. Letters or telegrams between Octave Chanute and the Wright brothers
Source: McFarland (1953) Schwipps (1985) has collected and discussed selected correspondence by the Lilienthal brothers, from which we can construct a Lilienthal-centric view of network interactions. In this book, the name Octave Chanute appears on 49 pages, James Means on 35, Augustus Herring on 29, Samuel Langley on 24, Gustav Lilienthal on 16, Robert W. Wood on 15, Karl Muellenhoff on 11, Carl Diestbach on 10, Samuel Cabot on 9, and Hiram Maxim on 8. Otto Lilienthal never knew the Wrights, who began experimentation after his death, but their names appear too, for example because they sent $1000 to his widow in thanks for his great achievements. Counts of Otto and Gustav Lilienthals’ selected letters and contacts (derived from Schwipps, 1993) Most common correspondents shown. Person Letters Means 12
Chanute 11 Dienstbach 5 Met with Langley 1895 Met with Pilcher 1895 Appendix G. References in historical accounts.These are the most-referenced persons or institutions in these historical books about the invention of the airplane, combined: Crouch’s A Dream of Wings (1981/2002); Dale’s Early Flying Machines (1992); Garber’s Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation (2005); Gibbs-Smith’s The Invention of the Aeroplane. (1966); Hallion’s Taking Flight (2003); Hoffman.Wings of Madness (2003 biog of Santos-Dumont); Jakab’s Visions of a Flying Machine (1990); Penrose’s An Ancient Air (biography of John Stringfellow); Randolph’s Before the Wrights flew: the story of Gustave Whitehead. (1966); Runge and Lukasch Erfinder Leben (2005) (biography of Lilienthal brothers); Shulman’s Unlocking the Sky (bio of Glenn Curtiss); This is preliminary, and almost all the sources are in English. Now up to 2000 persons referenced.
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