You guys are amazing. I had to follow up on all those tidbits about the Chanute play, so I hit the library tonight and looked up a 1987  Chicago Tribune article about it.

Octave Chanute was an accomplished civil engineer, and a key pioneer of American aviation:

He was a co-author of the plans for the elevated transit system in Manhattan, he ( Read more... )

I wrote this as a comment on grey_lensman's blog, then realized I should probably duplicate it on my own. It's one of those quests-of-curiosity that's always on the back burner of my mind ( Read more... )