Louis-Pierre Mouillard papers
Language: fre
Number of pages: 1600
Subjects: Correspondence; Aeronautics; Desert reclamation; Flight; Commerce; Naval research; Politics and government; Gabari (Packet boat); Birds
Description: Correspondence, writings, notes, printed material, certificates, photographs, drawings, and other papers pertaining primarily to Mouillard's inventions.  Subjects include aviation, agricultural techniques in the desert, naval technology, local politics, and bird flight and wing structure.  Includes a record book of the packet boat Gabari documenting trade between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia.  Correspondents include Octave Chanute.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mireille Martin, 2000.

Gift, estate of Gabriel Dardaud, 2004.

French inventor and aeronautical pioneer who lived primarily in Algeria and Egypt.

Collection material in French, with English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009097