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Show STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By John Hix pioneer Aider errrmKifct, rftf "t5i MitPt 1 000 hJ6HK MTUoUT ' i - - 1rllPCjU0INaUHfll.HewMi Hi OWM CRPiFT- v' "-i f uwt vetww OCTAVE CHA.NITE . . In 1896 Chanute. a man of 64. found himself with leisure time and turned to the study of aeronautics. The first original design of Chanute's was a machine with five superimposed wings! This was succeeded by a "three-decker and finally fi-nally by the famous Chanute biplane. This glider weighed only 23 pounds, yet had a wing area of 135 square feet and carried a total weight of 178 pounds at 23 miles per hour. . . . Hi became the inspiration of the Wright brothers who, by the adoption adop-tion of their own principles, first achieved successful powered flight. J" ohnBrown. noted abolitionist, in 1859. set out on a daring campaign to free the southern negroes from their bonds of slavery. On the night of OcUber 16. Brown, with a small band of followers, appeared at Harpers Ferry. W. Va., to seize the United States arsenal there and establish estab-lish a stronghold for fugitive slaves. The first man killed in the ensuing skirmish was Brown was captured by Colonel Robert E. Lee, after a pitched fight in which two of Brown's sons were killed. Brown was hanged for his deed on December 21, 1859. (Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram) |