Louis-Pierre Mouillard to Octave Chanute 9-Jan-1893

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Sender Louis-Pierre Mouillard
Recipient Octave Chanute
Date sent 9-Jan-1893
From location Cairo
To location
Communication type
Language English
Refers to flight? 1
Tech fields
Length (in words) 5471
Full text available


Mouillard politely lambastes the patent office (presumably of the US) for asserting dogmatically that "without a balloon the machine cannot rise" ; ref to Samuel P. Langley who sent Mouillard 500 francs! (text)

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