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Letter from Octave Chanute to Samuel Cabot, 19 December 1903

Letter from Octave Chanute to Samuel Cabot, 19 December 1903
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28 cm x 21.5 cm


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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Civil engineer Octave Chanute served as an advisor to Orville and Wilbur Wright and helped publicize their experiments. In this letter of 19 December 1903 to aviation enthusiast Samuel Cabot, he described the first successful flight conducted by the Wright brothers two days earlier, including technical specifications of their machine and other details.