Source Index to Digital Library

Books

The Aeronautical Annual, 1895, James Means, Ed.

The Aeronautical Annual, 1896, James Means, Ed.

The Aeronautical Annual, 1897, James Means, Ed.

Progress in Flying Machines. by Octave Chanute.

The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1890-1897, an English translation.

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Library of Congress Chanute-Wright Correspondence

• 1900 The first correspondence between Wilbur Wright and Octave Chanute.
• 1901 Correspondence for the year 1901.
• 1902 Correspondence for the year 1902.
• 1903 Correspondence for the year 1903.
• 1904 Correspondence for the year 1904.
• 1905 Correspondence for the year 1905.
• 1906 Correspondence for the year 1906.
• 1908 Correspondence for the year 1908.
• 1909 Correspondence for the year 1909.
• 1910 Correspondence for the year 1910.

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Periodicals

Aero Club of America Bulletin

• What Mouillard Did by Wilbur Wright. May, 1912.

The American Inventor

• A Novel Flying Machine invented by Nemethy. 1904.
• F A New Flying Machine invented by Nemethy. July, 1907.

Century Magazine

• The Wright Brothers Aëroplane by Wilbur Wright. September, 1908.

The Cosmopolitan

• F Aerial Navigation and Flying Machines by Gaston Tissandier. January, 1894.
• Gliding Flight by L. P. Mouillard. February, 1894.

McClure's Magazine

• Experiments in Flying by Octave Chanute. June, 1900.
• F Is the Airship Coming? by Simon Newcomb. September, 1901.

Nicholson's Journal

• On Aerial Navigation by Sir George Cayley. November, 1809; February, March 1810.

Scientific American

• Aerial Flights. A report on Chanute's experiments in the dunes of Indiana. October 31, 1896.
• F A Report on the Aeronautical Congress March 2, 1901.
• F The Kress Aeroplane March 2, 1901.
• FHoffman's Flying Machine May 4, 1901.
• F Aeronautics A retrospect of the year 1901 January 4, 1902.
• F Some Aeronautical Experiments made by the Wright Brothers February 22, 1902.
• F The Villard Flying Machine March 8, 1902.
• The Langley Airship. A press release published by S.P. Langley on August 19, 1903.
• Langley's Aerodrome Experiments. A report on the 12-foot aerodrome. August 22, 1903.
• Experiments with Motor-Driven Aeroplanes made by Gustav Whitehead. September 19, 1903.
• F The Berliner Aeroplane September 26, 1903.
• F Groombridge and South's New Aeroplane October 10, 1903
• The Failure of Langley's Aerodrome. October 17, 1903.
• Marceau's "BUTTERFLY." December 12, 1903.
• Accidents to the Lebaudy and Langley Flying Machines. December 19, 1903.
• F The Wright Aeroplane and its Fabled Performance January 13, 1905.
• F Feathered Flying Machines. July 8, 1905.
• A New Aeroplane built by Ludlow. July 15, 1905.
• Accident to the Montgomery Aeroplane. July 29, 1905.
• Ludlow's First Successful Flight November 4, 1905.
• Natural and Artificial Flight December 16, 1905.
• F The Wright Aeroplane and its Performances April 7, 1906.
• Aeroplanes and Motors at the First Paris Aeronautical Salon. January 23, 1909.
• F The British Army Aeroplane January 30, 1909.
• F The Aeronautic Society Aeroplane March 13, 1909.
• F A Novel French Aeroplane made by Givaudan. June 5, 1909.
• Some New American Aeroplanes June 5, 1909.
• Recent French Aeroplanes and Their Performances June 26, 1909.
• Wild Designs in Flying Machines. October 14, 1911.

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Newspapers

Chicago Times-Herald

• Chicago Times-Herald article of Sept. 8, 1897 by a reporter who visited Herring at Dune Park and tried the glider himself. A great description of what it was like to fly a Chanute/Herring glider.

Chicago Tribune

• Chicago Tribune article about Octave Chanute's gliding experiments - June 24, 1896.
• Another Tribune article about the Chanute experiments dated September 8, 1896 concerning Butusov's 'Albatross' with a neat artist's drawing included.

Westchester Tribune

• The Westchester Tribune's (Chesterton, Indiana) article of October 3, 1896 that describes Butusov's final attempt to launch the 'Albatross.'

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Patents

United States of America

• US Patent No. 821,393 is awarded to Orville and Wilbur Wright, May 22, 1906.

Unknown sources

• Irish

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Off-site material

• A History of Aeronautics by E. Charles Vivian. A Project Gutenberg etext.
• The Dominion of the Air, by John Mackenzie Bacon. A Project Gutenberg etext.
• The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton. A Project Gutenberg etext.
• British Airships, Past, Present, and Future, by George Whale. A Project Gutenberg etext.

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