The attached article first appeared on the 1912 pages of The Literary Digest and it addressed the debt that aviators, both past, present and future, owe to Louis Pierre Mouillard. Mouilard was a visionary in the field of aviation whose relentless study of bird flight throughout the last half of the Nineteenth Century paved the way for aviators yet unborn.
While referring to Mouillard, Wilbur Wright called him "one of the greatest missionaries of the flying cause which the 19th century produced..."
