Beard, Luther, 282, 300
Beard, Mrs. Dave, 283, 284, 285, 308
Beck, Mabel, 449, 456, 475–76. 483, 509, 512, 513, 517, 524, 525, 526
Becker, Henry J., 82
Beinn Breagh, 350, 351, 352, 400, 401
Bell, Alexander Graham, 138–42, 326, 329, 379–80, 392, 485, 487
aeronautical projects of, 349–53, 362, 399, 400–401
patent suit of, 399
Bell, Lawrence, 528–29
Bell, Mabel, 349, 351, 399
Bell, Mrs. C. J., 392
Belle Epoque, 250
“Bell’s Boys,” 352
Bell Telephone Company, 461
Belmont, August, 409, 410
Belmont Meet, 445
Bennett, James Gordon, 98, 336
James Gordon Bennett Trophies, 336, 404, 432, 432
Berck-sur-Mer, France, 320, 321, 322
Berg, Hart 0., 330, 331, 332–33, 335, 336–37, 339, 342, 344, 349, 370, 381, 388
Berg, Mrs. Hart, 381
Bergdoll, Grover Cleveland, 436–37
Berkshire Museum, 522, 523
Bertrand, Colonel, 306, 309
Besançon, Georges, 306, 307, 309, 336, 368
Beust, Carl, 521–22
bicycles, 105–15
aeronautical tests with, 221–22, 223
brand names of, 105, 108–9, 113
cost of, 105, 108, 113
flying machines and, 114–15, 169–70, 171, 243. 302, 353
high-wheel, 65, 106, 109
manufacturing technologies of, 106, 111–13
mass production of, 106, 113
national popularity of, 106–7, 115, 129
outings and races on, 105, 106–7, 117, 353
safety, 106, 109
tandem, 109
turning of, 170
Bierce, Nelson, 308
Big Kill Devil Hill, 265, 445, 506–7
Billheimer family, 69
Billman, Charley, 298–99
Billman, C. S., 298, 308
Billman, Nellie, 298, 308
Bingham, Hiram, 506
Binghamton Republican, 114
biplanes, 139, 143–45, 153, 156, 179. 233. 312, 322, 324, 401
bird flight, 137, 142–43, 159, 160–61, 172–73, 175, 176, 205, 316
Bird of Prey, 324–26
Birney, James G., 25
Bishop, Courtlandt Field, 331, 401, 403, 404, 414–15
Black, Fred, 500, 509
Blackbeard, 192
Blaine, James G., 99
Bleriot, Louis, 323, 324, 342, 349, 366, 369, 383–84, 405, 418
aircraft of, 384, 399, 413, 416, 431, 457
English Channel flight of, 384, 399
Blériot XI, 384, 399
“blind-flying” instruments, 474
“blinkers,” 295
Bliss, Alexander, II, 511
B. M. Van Dusen, 354
Boehm, Martin, 28
Boer War, 289
Bollée, Léon, 364–66, 381, 385
Bonebrake Theological Seminary, 41
Bonel, Henri, 310, 334, 441
Bonney, Leonard, 428, 435
Book of Discipline, 28, 41, 52, 68, 82, 217
Borglum, Gutzon, 471, 504
Boston Transcript, 142
Boswell, James, 78
Boys’ Life of the Wright Brothers, The (Charnley), 517–18
Brade, Reginald H., 295
Brazil, 250
Breckinridge, John C, 37
Brewer, Griffith, 469–70, 475, 488–89, 490–91, 494, 50, 513
Bridgeport Sunday Herald, 498
Brindley, Oscar, 464
“Bring Back Our Winged Exile,” 496
“Bring Home the Wright Plane,” 496
Brinkley, W. C, 266
British Balloon Factory, 311, 312
Brookins, Walter “Brookie,” 426–27, 428, 430, 432, 433, 434, 435, 509
Brown, John, 37–38
Brown, Roy, 436
Brown, William, 33
S. N. Brown Co., 255
Browne, Ross, 383–84
Browning, John, 149, 177, 247
Bryan, G. H., 232
Bryan, William Jennings, 135, 160
Burba, George, 13
Burbank, Luther, 508
Burkhart, J. C. 357
Burgess, Gelett, 127–28
Burgess, W. Starling, 461
Burgess tractor machines, 464
Burkhardt, Mayor, 391, 393
Bush, Vannevar, 517
Bushiemer, Dr., 449
Butusov, Paul, 153–54, 155
Byrd, Richard, 502
Cachin, Emile, 460
Calderara, Mario, 388
California Arrow, 290
Call, Loren H., 458, 464
Calvinism, 28
Camp d’Auvours, 369, 382, 385, 386, 504–5
Canada, 400, 478–79
canard design, 179–80, 312, 319, 324
Cannon, B., 138
Capper, John Edward, 289, 290, 291–92, 294, 305–6, 311–12
Carnegie, Andrew, 229
Carnot, Sadi, 249
Cassier’s Magazine, 202
catapult launching systems, 140, 141, 256, 262, 282–83, 285–86, 299, 381, 486
Cayley, Sir George, 56, 161, 176
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 52–53, 58–60
Cedar River, 52
Cellic, Andrew, 499
Centocelle, 388, 389, 405, 410
Central High School, 74, 88, 95, 95, 101, 104, 122, 279, 377, 426
Century, 360, 362
Cercle des Arts et Sports, 383
Chalais Meudon, 230, 320
Chamber’s Cyclopedia, 78, 94
Chandler, Charles DeForest, 435, 446
Chantiers de France, 383
Chanut, Elise Sophie Debonnaire, 146
Chanut, Joseph, 146–47
Chanute, Annie, 248
Chanute, Kans., 148
Chanute, Octave, 56–57, 122, 146–56, 147, 164, 205, 375, 376
advice given by, 329, 379, 393, 420
aeronautical experiments of, 153–56, 160, 168, 179, 182
aeronautics promoted by, 290–91, 312, 318
celebrity of, 156
childhood of, 146–48
civil engineering career of, 56, 148–50, 152, 200–201
death of, 421, 433
early aeronautical interests of, 149–52
exaggeration and misrepresentation by, 251, 253–54, 276–77, 420, 423
family of, 248, 421
flight demonstrations missed by, 259, 300
information dispersed by, 229–35, 245–46, 253–54, 271, 276–77, 281, 296, 300
international contacts of, 247, 248–49, 251, 252, 256–57, 274, 291, 318
lectures of, 249, 251–52, 277, 318, 362, 416, 417
personality of, 146–47, 200–201
principles of, 200–201, 205
publications of, 152, 162, 165, 177, 181, 202, 253–54, 296, 318
technical understanding lacking in, 200, 251, 253–54, 302, 316, 318
Wilbur and, 160, 174, 181–82, 183, 200, 219, 253–54, 276–79, 293, 303, 316, 336, 419–21
Wilbur on, 146, 316, 419–21
Wrights’ correspondence with, 160, 174, 181–82, 183, 200, 201–2, 203, 206–7, 208, 214, 226, 229, 234–35, 236, 237, 245–46, 247, 248–49, 253–55, 258, 276–79, 311, 316, 340–41, 410, 419–21
Wrights criticized by, 278, 301–2, 316, 419–21
Wrights’ quarrel with, 419–21, 441–42
Wrights’ relationship with, 181–82, 196, 197, 200–202, 205–7, 211–12, 218–21, 229–35, 236, 251, 253–55, 259–60, 271, 302–3
Chanute-Herring glider (1896), 154, 155, 156, 160, 214, 233–34, 239, 260, 275–76, 280, 290, 291, 343. 352, 498
Charnley, Mitchell, 517–18
Chicago, 111., 150–52, 182, 248
Chicago Tribune, 154
Christian Amendment Convention, 51
C
hristian Conservator, 69, 79, 82, 88, 96
Christian Cynosure, 51
Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 12, 27–31, 33
Confession of Faith of, 28, 68, 79, 80, 81–82, 85
Constitution of, 29, 30, 52, 68, 78–80, 81–82, 85, 163
dissension within, 12, 41–43, 63, 67–69, 78–82, 119
educational institutions of, 31, 35, 37, 41, 60, 64, 89
General Conferences of, 28, 29, 41, 43, 51–52, 63, 65, 67, 68, 69, 78–80, 81–82
missionary circuits of, 35–38, 39, 40, 52, 54–55, 60, 63, 69, 78, 81, 86, 88, 90, 104, 128, 150–51, 157, 160
publications of, 43, 45, 51, 52, 63–64, 65, 68
Radical-Liberal split in, 12, 41–43, 51–52, 63–64, 67–69, 78–82, 84–87, 163–64, 484
reform movement in, 68–69, 78–82
Church of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution):
establishment of, 82, 215
General Conferences of, 85–86, 216, 217–18, 302
litigation involving, 85–86, 91–92, 103, 217, 484
property disputes in, 84–86, 91–92
publishing board controversy in, 215–18
reorganization of, 83–87
Cincinnati Enquirer, 272
Cincinnati Post, 300
Civil War, 26, 40, 41, 79, 148
Clément-Bayard, 416
cockpits, 258, 262, 324
Cody, Samuel F., 312, 353
Coe’s Collegiate Academy, 60
Coffin, Howard, 469
Coffyn, Prank, 11, 428, 429, 430
Cogswell, Dr., 196
College Park, Md., 408–9, 446, 451, 458, 507
Collier, Robert J., 409, 410, 455, 459, 465
Collier’s Weekly, 280, 357, 409, 496, 519
Collier Trophy, 15, 459, 472–73, 520, 528–29
Collin, Frédérick, 323
Columbus, Christopher, 36
comic strips, 136
Committee on Military Ballooning, 289
Commodore, 37
Commonwealth, 248
Compagnie Générale de Navigation Aérienne, La (CGNA), 349, 383, 389, 405, 416–17, 433. 440
compasses, 398
Congress, U.S., 390
Congress of Religions, 151
Conklin, D. B., 448–49
“Connecticut Night Watchman Thinks He Has Found Out How To Fly,” 498
Connor, T. J., 37
“Conquête de l’Air par Deux Marchands de Cycles” (Coquelle), 308
Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, 441
Constitutional Association, 69, 79
Contact, 495
control systems, 166, 167–70, 318, 441–42
automatic stabilizing, 443–45, 459–60
gyroscopic, 459–60
lateral, 251, 317, 324, 353, 384, 40J-2, 419–20, 442
Coolidge, Calvin, 506
cooling systems, 244, 245
Coquelle, Robert, 308–9, 327
Cordley, Frank R., 328, 329, 333, 335, 339, 346
Cosmopolitan, 328
Cosmos Club, 371, 392
Coupe d’Aviation Ernest Archdeacon, 317, 321–22, 325, 344
Coupe Michelin, 377, 384–85, 459
Cox, James M., 390, 503
Crane, George D., 216
Crane, John, 499–500
Crane, Spencer, 427
Crane, Zenas, 522–23
Creecy, Richard, 374
Crisp, W. Benton, 462, 466–67, 484
Cross of Gold, 135
Crozier, William, 346
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 313–14, 327, 384, 422, 443, 449
aircraft manufacturing of, 313–14, 351–52, 361, 399, 400–405, 407, 415
exhibition team of, 428–29, 431–32, 485
first plane sold by, 399
flights of, 353, 362–63, 364, 373, 374, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406–8, 424–25, 432
flight training by, 428–29, 459, 485
flying boats of, 457, 459–60
Langley Aerodrome reconstructed by, 485–87, 489, 492–95
speed record set by, 404, 432
Wrights’ competition with, 407–9, 432
see also Herring-Curtiss Company
Curtiss, Lena, 415
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, 415, 457, 461–67
infringement suits brought by, 466
research and development at, 464
Wright Aeronautical merged with, 467
Wrights’ patent war with, 456–67
G. H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company, 313–14
Curtiss Model C-2, 460
Curtiss Model E, 457, 458
Curtiss Model J, 464
Curtiss Model JN-4D “Jenny,” 464, 470, 510
Curtiss-Wright, 467
Cutler, Edward, 509
Cygnet, 351–52
Cygnet II, 399
Daily Mail (London), 357, 384
Dandrieux butterfly, 57
Daniels, John T., 264, 266, 267, 268, 268, 269, 454
Danner, John, 98
“Darius Green and His Flying Machine” (Trowbridge), 137
Dauphine, La, 192
Davis, J. W., 427
Dayton, Ohio, 11, 19, 43, 52, 65–66, 90, 157–59
centennial celebration of, 158–59
1912 flood in, 452–54
Wright Brothers’ Celebration in, 390–91, 392–94, 393
Dayton Airplane Company, 469
Dayton Daily Herald, 100, 118, 272
Dayton Daily Journal, 68, 100, 271, 282, 300
Dayton Daily News, 272, 300, 508
Dayton Engineering Laboratories (DELCO), 468–69
Dayton Metal Products Company, 469
Dayton Street Railway, 46
Dayton-Wright Company, 469–71, 489, 492
sale of, 471, 472
Senate investigation of, 471
Dayton-Wright R.B. Racer, 471
Dean, Ed, 271
de Bausset, Arthur, 138
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 78
Deeds, Edward A., 468–69, 471, 521–22, 523, 524, 526
Deeds Carillon Park, 523, 524
DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft, 470
Delagrange, Léon, 343, 345, 349, 362, 368
de Lambert, Charles, 383, 386, 433
Dennis, Emma, 123–24
Detroit Tribune, 106
Deutsch-Archdeacon prize, see Grand Prix d’Aviation
Deutsch de la Meurthe, Henri, 249–50, 251, 307, 308, 317, 322, 333–35. 336, 342, 349, 362, 381
Deutsch Prize, 250, 251, 336
Dewey, Orville, 48
Dicken, George P., 381
Dickie, James, 499
Dienstbach, Carl, 306–7, 395–96
dirigibles, 101, 250–51, 252, 282, 361, 405, 425
Disney, Walt, 497
dive bombers, 15, 472
Dive of Death, 431
Dix, Dorothy (Elizabeth M. Gilmer), 136
Dog-Fennell Gazette, 24
Dominguez Field, 424–25, 429, 434
Dosher, Joseph J., 182–83, 189, 190, 270
Dough, W. S., 260, 264, 266
Douglas, James, 508–9
Douglas DWC World Cruiser, 511
Douglas SBD Dauntless bomber, 472
drag control, 176–77, 200, 201, 238–39, 241
Drew, “Uncle Dan’l,” 149
Dreyfus Affair, 334
Drinkwater, Alpheus, 267, 357, 358
Drury, A. W., 67, 86
Drzewiecki, Stefan, 317
Dumont, Henriques, 250
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 95, 101, 109
Dunne, J. W., 312
Durand, William F., 474
Duryea, Charles, 136
Duryea, Frank, 136
Earhart, Amelia, 506
Early Birds, 508
Early Powerplane Fathers (Zahm), 500
Eddy, Ulysses D., 328–29
Edison, Thomas Alva, 360, 508, 512
Edison Company,
136
Edison Institute, 508
Edward VII, King of England, 385, 386
Eiffel Tower, 250, 282
Einem, General von, 340
elevators, 167–68, 173, 179, 180, 188, 199, 201, 209–12, 255, 267, 286, 295–97, 312, 322, 324, 464
Ellehammer, J. C. R., 324
Ellet, Charles, 149
Ellington, Eric, 458
Ellis, Ed, 74, 116, 118, 391
“Empire of the Air” (Mouillard), 162
Encyclopedia Britannica, 78
Engelhard, Paul, 442
engines:
air-cooled, 244
Antoinette, 325, 342
Bouchet, 343
compressed-air, 233–34
Curtiss, 313–14, 352, 361, 487
Hispano-Suiza, 466
horsepower delivery of, 167, 241, 242, 244, 253, 257, 260, 280, 324, 325, 404, 412, 458
internal combustion, development of, 166–67, 244, 249_50, 257, 462
Langley, 488
Liberty, 470
Peugeot, 324
rocket, 474
Rolls-Royce, 470
steam, 138, 139, 141–42, 166, 169, 175, 258, 260, 275, 321, 462
Wright, 244–46, 245, 253, 261, 267, 273, 274, 276, 280, 313, 314, 328, 412, 458, 488
England, 247, 274, 289–90, 312, 451
aeronautical research in, 289–90, 306, 311–12
aircraft production in, 470
War Office of, 294–95, 304–6, 311–12, 388
Wright production contracts in, 389, 410, 435, 442, 451, 488
Wrights’ negotiations in, 291–92, 294–95, 302, 305–6, 307, 311–12, 314, 330, 333
English Channel, 384, 385, 399, 431
equilibrium, 115, 167–70, 172–73
Erie Railroad, 148–49
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert, 318–19, 323, 336, 349, 353, 384, 416, 441. 457
Etheridge, Adam, 263–64, 266
evangelism, 28, 29
Evening Standard (London), 343
“Experiences d’Aviation” (Ferber), 251
Experiments in Aerodynamics (Langley), 140, 162
“Experiments of a Flying Man, The”
(Wright), 281
Ezekiel Flying Machine, 138
Fabre, Henri, 457
Fairfield Air Depot, 511
Fanciulli, Jerome, 429
Farman, Henri Edgar Mumford, 155, 343–45, 349, 362, 364, 368–69, 384
airplanes of, 413, 416, 431
Farman, Thomas, 343
Feight, George, 256
Feight, John, 74
Ferber, Ferdinand, 232–33, 248–49, 251, 252, 274–75, 306–7, 309, 317, 319–21. 323–24, 336
Ferris, George, 150
Fetters & Shank, 116, 226
“Fifty Years of American Science” (McGee), 106
Figaro, Le, 368
Findley, Earl, 475–76, 496, 517–18, 519, 526
Fish, Frederick, 448
Fiske, “Jubilee Jim,” 149
Fiske, Wilbur, 40
Fitz, Reginald Heber, 108
“flaming coffin,” 470
“Fliers or Liars,” 315
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