Many people,whether not most, absorb never heard of Octave Chanute or know what an anemometer is, and but the man and the instrument both played an important part in Orville and Wilbur Wright’s aeronautical experiments. First,some background on Chanute. Octave Chanute was a Paris-born civil engineer in the United States who played a meaningful ...
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