[JoeF]

Louis Pierre Mouillard
... exciting testimony. All are invited to explore his dimensions.

A start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pierre_Mouillard
And: http://www.flyingmachines.org/moui.html

And it will interesting to visit his writings and Chanute's take on Mouillard.
Might be fun to build and replicate Mouillard's hops.