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Show IIS FATHER OF AVIATION I Tho real father of aviation Is Octavo Chanuto, s' an engineer of distinction, who is now In Paris, K after having submitted to a serious oporatlon. Ho sxxS nnfi un(' mi Interesting careor. Born In Paris in H -wIjI 1832, no cnmo to tn's country with his father in V&SSif wn!' 1830 ttuA Btud,e(1 engineering. H1b first and tho l ffizWmM most Important nppointmont that ho ever received S fcTvVTOuV WRB lnat of c,of ens'nr t tho Elevated Rail-' Rail-' ifflftr rond Company of Now York, founded In 1865. lvmMwWu. Mr Chanuto drew up tho plnnB of tho famoim i A'Milr!ffl5K olovateds up Third, Sixth nnd Ninth avenues, I aVl MyJfo which, at their opening to traffic in 1875, were con-, con-, J.X$'JSrfiffl sldored marvola of engineering skill, nnd which, ) for tno ,nB 35 yonrs' nnvo uoen of Incalculable ' MW-MIi I ndvnntngo to tho uptown population of Now York IT Ifl city. This vast entorprlso took up all his timo I for ton years. It was not until 1S90 that his thoughts wero directed toward navigation , of the nlr. It waa then that tho experiments of Llllonthal nnd Verchor attracted at-tracted his attention, and tho monoplane gliders which they used appeared to him out of tho propor equilibrium. Ho theroupon set to work experimenting, ; himself in 1891, and 1S92 with his son. TluiB nt tho ago of sixty, in company with his son, ho began to practlso. lying without a motor. Later on, of courso, It was realized that light motorB wero absolutely nocossary. Chanuto, who wns then woll Advanced In years ho 13 now 78 tired of tho experimental work and turned over his apparatus to tho Wright brothers. I They followed along tho linoB ho had laid down and he kept In touch with I i their work constantly It waB to his early experiments and aftorwardil through his advice that thoy succeeded In making a flying machine tho first) 1 which ever made a free flight with a pasBengor. |