Locomotive to Aeromotive Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution |
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| Author:
| Short, Simine |
| Foreword by:
| Crouch, Tom D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-08014-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed Americas two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously "unbridgeable" Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems helped the ......
French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed Americas two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously "unbridgeable" Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems helped the ......