The Bishop's Boys (96 page)

London School of Economics and Political Science, 289

Aeronautical
, 400, 457

Lorenz, E. L., 452

Lorenz, Mrs. D. L., 60

Los Angeles
Times
, 499

last Flights of Gustave Whitehead, The
(Randolph), 499, 500

Lougheed, Victor, 445, 497

Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
see
St. Louis Exposition Louvre, 386, 387

Lou Willis
, 354

Love, Judge, 526

Love, Moss, 458

Lowell, James Russell, 19

Lucas-Girardville, Paul N.,
382
, 383, 386

Ludlow, Israel, 423

Lutheran Standard
, 68–69

Lyncker, General von, 339–40

LZ 6, 406

McArdle, William, 431

McClure’s Magazine
, 159

McCook Field, 511

McCurdy, John Alexander Douglas, 351–53, 379–80

McFarland, Marvin W., 525–26

McGee, W. J., 80, 106

McGowan, P. H., 357, 359

McGraw-Hill, 526

McGuffey, William Holmes, 508

“Machine That Really Flies, The,” 280

Mackinder, Halford, 289

McKinley, William, 99–100, 135, 139

McLeish, Archibald, 525

McMahon, John R., 48, 190, 475–76, 517–18

McSurley, Alexander, 500

magnetos, 244, 245, 259, 374

malaria, 448

Maloney, Daniel, 296–97, 445, 497

Manly, Charles Matthews, 257–58, 262–63, 312, 363–64, 419

Manning, Anna, 46–47

Manning, James, 45, 46–47

Manufacturers Aircraft Association, 466–67

Marey, Etienne Jules, 159

Margherita, Dowager Queen of Italy, 382, 388

Marshall, Fred, 505–6, 510

Martin, Glenn L., 461, 466

Glenn L. Martin Company, 466

Masterson, Bat, 72

Matin, Le
(Paris), 334, 368–69

Matthews & Light, 102

Mauser Gun Works, 330

Maxim, Hiram, 205, 215, 242

Means, James Howard, 115, 162, 169, 233, 347

Melville, George, 137

Men With Wings, 495

Mexican War, 19, 99

Miami River, 46, 47, 52, 452, 458

Miami Wood Specialty Company, 515

Michelin, André, 384

micrometers, 273

Midget
, 94

Midgett, Franklin, 354

Midgett, Spencer “Little,” 354

Miller, Harold S. “Scribze,” 480–81, 482, 503, 515, 525, 526

Miller, Ivonette Wright (niece),
126
, 271, 481–82, 526

Katharine recalled by, 122, 127

Orville recalled by, 13–14,
112
, 125–27, 128, 476, 477, 481, 503, 513, 515

Wilbur recalled by, 117, 125–27, 128

Miller, Luther, 528

Millikan, Robert,
474
, 502

Milling, Thomas DeWitt, 436, 464

Mitchell, John, 443–44

Mitchell, William, 502

Moccasin
(A-4), 267

Moedebeck, Hermann W. L., 219–20, 232

Moisant, John, 431, 432, 434

Moltke, Helmut von, 339

Mona Lisa
, 335

monoplanes, 143, 145, 154, 179, 232, 318, 324, 445, 528

Montgomery, James, 497

Montgomery, John Joseph, 152, 296–97, 445, 496–98, 500, 502

Montgomery, Regina, 496–97

Monthly Weather Review
, 182

Moon, space travel to, 460

Moore, Harry, 271

Moore, Johnny, 266, 269–70

Moore, Willis, 182

Morgan, John, 28, 86

Morgan, J. P., 387, 388, 409

Motor Airship Study Company, 339

motorcycles, 313–14, 353

Mouillard, Louis-Pierre, 162, 201, 245–46, 254, 419, 441–42, 446

Mount Rushmore, 471

Mount Vernon Ducking Club, 139

Munn, Charles, 363

Murray, James Wolfe, 306

Musgrave, Bishop, 86

Myers, Carl, 290, 312–13

“Mythical Whitehead Flights, The” (Wright), 500

Nash, F. S., 263

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 473, 474, 492, 516, 517, 524, 529

National Anti-Secrecy Association, 51

National Cash Register Company, 158, 468, 478, 496, 521

National Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies, 51

National Temperance Convention, 51

navigational aids, 397–98

Navy, U.S., 457, 458

Aeronautics Bureau of, 471

NBL-1 Barling Bomber, 511

Nevin, Robert M., 292

Newcomb, Simon, 137

Newell, Emerson, 500

New Orleans
Picayune
, 136

newspapers, 135–36, 143, 145, 270–72, 274, 279

air competitions sponsored by, 425, 437–38, 439

Newton, Byron, 356–57

New York Aero Shows, 498

New York American
, 272, 444

New York Enquirer
, 328

New Yorker
, 472

New York Globe
, 347

New York Herald
, 315, 325, 326, 328, 355–56, 381, 443

New York Herald Magazine
, 280, 498

New York Times
, 337, 355, 425, 465–66

New York World
, 136, 419, 425, 444

Nicoll, DeLancy, 409

Nolte, George, 329

Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot
, 270, 271, 274, 355, 356

Northcliffe, Arthur Harmsworth, Lord, 384, 449

North River Steamboat, 406

Notre Dame cathedral, 335

Oberlin Preparatory School, 87, 88–89

Oberlin University, 89, 92, 119, 120, 122, 157, 160, 385, 482, 525

Oches, Victor, 137–38

Ogilvie, Alexander, 431, 443, 444

Ohmer, Will, 276

Old Constitution church,
see
Church of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution) Olympic Games (modern), 136

“On a Matter of Fraud,” 491

O’Neal, Oliver, 354

O’Neal, “Uncle Benny,” 264, 354

“On Soaring Flight” (Huffaker), 162

ornithology, 160

ornithopters, 138

“Orville’s Railway,” 479

Osborn, Agnes, 119, 173, 379

Osborn, Glenn, 119

Otterbein, Philip William, 28, 51, 82

Outcalt, Richard F., 136

Outer Banks, 14, 183–95, 270, 278, 350, 505–7

Ovington, Earl, 431

pacifism, 40

Painlevé, Paul, 381

Palmer, Ida, 57, 58

Panama, 36

Pan-American Aeronautical Exhibition, 492

Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, The
, 526

parachute jumps, 144, 248, 290, 425

Parallel Lives
(Plutarch), 78

Parc d’Aérostation (Saint-Cloud), 250, 275, 336

Parmalee, Phil o., 428, 433, 434–35

Parseval dirigible, 405

Parsons, Herbert, 331, 390, 392

Parsons
[Kans.]
Sun
, 148

Patent Office, U.S., 15, 246, 253, 414, 423

patents, 231, 254, 275–76, 278

automobile, 461–62

infringement of, 360, 363, 364, 399, 400, 402–3, 404–5, 407, 410, 412–23, 451–52

rejected applications for, 246, 253, 275–76

usefulness of, 300, 462

Wrights’ applications for, 245–46, 253, 275–76, 277, 300, 443

Wrights’ holding of, 312, 314, 349, 352, 353, 410

Patrie, La
, 336

Patterson, Frank Stuart, 511

Patterson, John H., 158, 468

Patterson Field, 511

Pau, France, 385–86, 387–88, 505

Paulhan, Louis, 413–14, 428

Payne, S. J., 266–67

Peartree, Henry, 440, 441, 452

Pellier, Monsieur, 366

Pénaud, Alphonse, 56, 57, 161, 164, 168–69, 249, 342

pendulums, 443, 459, 460

Pennington, E. J., 101

Pennsylvania
, 184

perpetual motion, 355

Perry, Israel, 185–86, 195, 199

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 438

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 438

Peterkin, Clinton R., 409–10

Pettigrew, James Bell, 160

Peyrey, François, 367, 377, 417

Philadelphia
Public Ledger
, 425

Phillips, Harvey, 498–99

Philomatheon Literary Society, 64, 101

phrenology, 40

Picquart, Georges, 333–34

Pilcher, Percy Sinclair, 164, 171, 172, 214, 231

pilots:

control problems of, 168, 169–70, 179, 209–12, 214–15, 238, 286, 296–97, 364, 396, 435, 458–59

daredevil, 296, 425–26, 428, 430–31, 460

errors of, 458–59, 464

financing of, 437–38

glider, 143–45, 179–80, 296–97

military, 435–36, 458, 463–64, 510–11

prone position of, 190, 199, 200, 202–3, 295

test, 511

training of,
see
flight training upright position of, 338, 349, 370

Pirelli, Giovanni de, 381, 387–88, 410

pitch control, 167–69, 180, 198, 210–12, 286, 297

Pittsburgh
Dispatch
, 151–52

Plant, Morton, 409

Plessy v. Fergusson
, 136

Plew, James, 445

Plutarch, 53, 78

Pocket-Book of Aeronautics, The
(Moedebeck), 232

Pont-Long, 385

Poor, Alfred Eastman, 506

Pope, Albert, 106

popular Aviation
, 499

popular Science Monthly
, 517, 518

Post, Augustus, 313, 326, 363

Post, Harry, 463

Powderly, Terrence, 98, 99

Practical Aerodynamics
(Hayward), 417

Pratt truss system, 155, 276

Premiers Hommes-oiseaux, Les
, 367

“Pride of the West,” 255

printing presses:

rotary, 136

Wright-built, 95, 96, 102, 107, 515, 516

Prix de la Hauteur, 381

Prix pour Record de Distance, 322

“Problem of Flying and Practical Experiments in Mechanical Flight, The” (Lilienthal), 162

Progress in Flying Machines
(Chanute), 152, 162, 165, 181, 296, 419

propeller revolution counter, 267

propellers, 139, 140, 141, 142, 166, 241, 267, 282

accident caused by, 377–78, 395

shafts of, 259, 261, 377–78, 395

ship, 242

thrust delivered by, 242, 243, 260–61

two contrarotating, 243–44, 312

Wright’s development of, 242–44, 253, 259, 260–61, 295, 395

Pulitzer, Joseph, 98

Pulitzer Race, 511

Pupin, Michael, 502

Quantico, Va., 138–42, 162, 258

Queen Monoplane Company, 431, 456

Raddon, Charles B., 306

Radley, James, 431

Randolph, Stella, 498–99, 500

Rapiére, La
, 322–23

Rathbun, Richard, 161–62, 485

Rathenau, Walther, 339

Reader’s Digest
, 500

“Real Fathers of Flight, The” (McMahon), 517

Reber, Samuel, 464

Red Wing
, 352–53

Reed, Luther, 141

Reform Leaflets
, 63

Régnier, Henri, 310

Reichelderfer, Francis W., 524

Reims, France, 403–4, 405–6, 413

Reinieger, John, 174

Reinieger, Walt, 174

Religious Telescope
, 43, 45, 51, 52, 68, 78, 79

Renard, Charles, 231, 252, 320

Reuchlin, Johannes, 39

Revue des Sciences
, 253

Rhinow Hills, 142–45

Rich, Perry C, 458

Richmond High School, 64–65

Richmond
Star
, 63–64, 65, 69

Richthofen, Manfred von, 436

Riddell, John Leonard, 279

Rike, Daniel L., 85

Riley, James Whitcomb, 24

Ritty, James, 158

“Road to Justice, The,” 496

Roanoke Island, 185, 191, 192

rocket-engine technology, 474

Rockwell, Lewis, 458, 464

Rodgers, Calbraith Perry, 436, 437, 438–39

Rodgers, John, 435, 438

Rodgers, Mabel, 438–39

Rogers, Robert Perry, 506

roll control, 167–70, 172, 201, 443

Rolls, Charles Stewart, 389, 435

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 502, 503, 520

Roosevelt, Theodore, 331, 351, 431

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 374

Root, Amos I., 279–80, 284–85

Roques, General, 337

Royal Aeronautical Society, 307

Royal Engineer Committee, 294–95, 305

Royal Society, 176

Ruck, Richard, 294

rudders, 15, 167–68, 169, 235, 251, 253–54, 257, 267, 282, 312, 462

control of, 295, 396

fixed, 236, 237–38,
238
, 239

movable, 238–39,
240
, 299

two-surface vertical, 235,
238
, 239, 255

Ruhl, Arthur, 357–58

Ruse, Cordy, 114, 115, 188

Russell, Frank, 411, 434, 438, 456

Russell, George, 479, 513

Russia, Imperial, 330

Ryan, Thomas F., 409

sabotage, 90

“Sailing Flight” (Lilienthal), 178

St. Clair, Arthur, 113

St. Clair bicycle, 113

St. Louis Exposition, 229–30, 231, 248, 259, 260, 278, 290, 291

Salley, D. Bruce, 355–56, 357, 443–44

Saltzman, Charles, 398

Sandburg, Carl, 502

San Francisco earthquake (1906), 314, 351

Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 250–51, 272, 282, 290, 303. 342, 353, 364, 416

world’s first public flight by, 317, 324–26, 328, 345. 441

Saulnier, Ralph, 405

Savoia, Umberto, 388

“Scandal of the First Man-Carrying Aeroplane, The,” 491

Scenes in the Church Commission During the Last Day of Its Session
(Wright), 78, 79, 80, 95

Schenck & Williams, 448, 477

Scherl, Herr, 405

Schindler, Reuben, 298

Science Museum of London, 491–92, 506, 520, 521, 525, 526

Scientific American
, 285, 307, 312–13, 327, 328–29, 362, 363, 498

Scientific American Trophy, 363–64, 402, 425

SC-1, 361, 373

Scott, Frank, 458, 464

Scott, J. F., 348

Scott, Walter, 78

Scripps, William E., 508

Seasholes, Charles Lyon, 512, 524–25

seat belts, 435

secret societies, 25, 29–30, 35, 41–42, 51, 63, 67, 68, 78–79, 484

Selden, George, 462

Selfridge, Edward R., 399

Selfridge, Thomas Etholen, 351–53, 360, 372, 373

fatal flying accident of, 375–77, 379, 399, 435, 464

“separate but equal” doctrine, 136