Portrait of Octave Chanute. Chanute was a Paris-born civil engineer in the United States who played a significant role in the burgeoning field of heavier-than-air flight in the late nineteenth century.
ID#:
NASM 2003-12100
Credit:
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM 2003-12100)
Source:
National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
