Edward Chalmers Huffaker papers, 1880-1986, undated.

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Edward Chalmers Huffaker papers, 1880-1986, undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213410666

Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Edward Chalmers Huffaker of Chuckey, Tenn., and includes letters of family members and professional colleagues and relates to the personal life and activities of Huffaker.

1.25 linear feet.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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SNAC Resource ID: 7008680

East Tennessee State University, TET

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Huffaker, Edward Chalmers.

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Edward Chalmers Huffaker was born in 1856 and graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., and earned a masters from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. After teaching in public schools, he became in the 1890s a civil engineer in Bristol, Tenn. During this period, he became interested in problems of flight, becoming a correspondent with Samuel P. Langley, Smithsonian Institution director, and conducting his own observations of birds and air currents aroun...

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906

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Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professory of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh). While at the Smithsonian he founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory....

Huffaker, Carrie Sue.

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Huffaker family.

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Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910

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Civil engineer and aviation pioneer. From the description of Octave Chanute papers, 1807-1955 (bulk 1860-1910). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980023 A native of Paris, Chanute emigrated from France to the U.S. with his parents in 1838. He worked as an engineer, primarily in constructing railroads and railroad bridges, but is best remembered as a pioneer in aerial navigation and glider flight, and wrote two influential books on flight. From the description of P...