Data on the pre-history of the airplane industry by Peter B. Meyer

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Data on the pre-history of the airplane industry
by Peter B. Meyer

Office of Productivity and Technology, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
9 August 2010

This work is preliminary and incomplete.

Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to establish a set of quantitative historical facts and their sources about the invention of the airplane and the rise of aircraft-related organizations and industries. This will support the study and analytical modeling of how an invention comes about and leads to a new industry. The facts as presented here will have errors, omissions, and ambiguities, which can be corrected, improved, and clarified over time.

Table of contents
Appendix A. Sources…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…2
Appendix B. Early fixed-wing aircraft makers………………………………………………………………….4
Appendix C. Key individuals in the early aircraft industry……………………………………………….75
Appendix D. Patents before 1907…………………………………………………………………………………119
Appendix E. References to individuals in Chanute’s 1894 Progress in Flying Machines…..167
Appendix F. Letters amongst these innovators……………………………………………………………...169
Appendix G. References in historical accounts………………………………………………………………197
Appendix H. Authors in Brockett’s aeronautics bibliography up to 1910………………………198
Appendix I. What the Wrights had read before 1903…………………………………………………….200
Appendix J. Education levels of the experimenters and authors…………………………………….201
Appendix K. Aeronautical clubs as of 1920……………………………………………………………….…..202
Appendix L. Aeronautical journals as of 1920….……………………………………………………………162