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11.) Age of discovery.
Over one day ago | Thu Nov 6 4:32:00 PST 2008
Frank Whittle, its thirty four year old inventor didn`t waste any time in developing his theory regarding the turbo-jet. Oddley enough, the Germans beat the English to it, and had a jet fighter in the air long before we did! ...
From online716887
12.) The rise and fall of alternative power in motor racing
Over one day ago | Fri Oct 10 7:14:00 PDT 2008
Indeed, the first application considered for the gas turbine developed by Power Jets? Frank Whittle was aviation ? and it being war, military aviation came to mind first, although for Rover mum was the word. The car manufacturer being ...
From MFR
13.) mydigitallife | "Experts" get it wrong!
Over one day ago | Wed Nov 12 7:43:00 PST 2008
"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine, before 1930. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be ...
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14.) Marconi Archive Catalogue now available online - QRZ Forums
Over one day ago | Mon Nov 10 0:00:00 PST 2008
papers of the British Thomson-Houston Company relating to its role in the construction and testing of Frank Whittle's first experimental jet engine from 1935 onwards; * photographs of the English Electric Company's aircraft works in ...
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15.) 10 MYTHS ON CREATIVITY
Over one day ago | Sat Aug 30 11:35:00 PDT 2008
Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle didn't think like that or we'd still be flying in propeller aeroplanes. Bear in mind that propeller aeroplanes were working perfectly fine when the two gentlemen in question individually invented the ...
From Hyd-Masti Team
16.) Heroes of Capitalism: Erno Rubik
Over one day ago | Thu Nov 13 5:44:00 PST 2008
With this agreement and the Rubik's Cube huge success, Erno Rubik became one of the first self made millionaires from the Communist block. HT: Frank Sources: Van Dulken, Stephen. Inventing the 20th Century. New York: New York University ...
From Kate Sheehan
17.) THE PRODIGAL SOCK.
Over one day ago | Sat Oct 11 17:47:00 PDT 2008
No it wasn?ta demented bat trying to get home because it was daylight and neither was it a jet engine aircraft which Frank Whittle would have been proud to invent. It was a sock ? One sock. I picked it up and scolded it for jumping out ...
From Music-lover June
18.) [important] frank whittle
Over one day ago | Wed Jun 4 16:18:00 PDT 2008
i have done some research, i have found out that frank whittle was the guy who invented jet engines. i couldn't resist to look and find out. source.
From MattSoden
19.) let's invent the baby's name
Over one day ago | Sat Jun 28 12:20:00 PDT 2008
erna schneider hoover - computerized telephone switching system ferdinand von zeppelin - rigid airship franc trkman - electrical switches, window opening accessories frank hornby - meccano frank whittle - co-inventor of the jet engine ...
From Inventing Matilda
20.) our day at the boeing museum of flight
Over one day ago | Sat Sep 13 0:29:00 PDT 2008
william lear - airplane creator cyrus mccormick - invented grain reaper guglielmo marconi - developed radio eli whitney - invented the cotton gin sir frank whittle - invented turbo jet engine orville and wilbur wright - brothers who ...
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