Emilio herrera linares biography of william
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Leonardo Torres Quevedo
Spanish civil engineer (–)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torres and the second or maternal family name is Quevedo.
Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish:[leoˈnaɾðoˈtoreskeˈβeðo]; 28 December – 18 December ) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor, known for his numerous engineering innovations, including aerial trams, airships, catamarans, and remote control. He was also a pioneer in the field of computing and robotics. Torres was a member of several scientific and cultural institutions and held such important positions as the seat N of the Real Academia Española (–) and the presidency of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (–). In he became a foreign associate of the French Academy of Sciences.[4]
His first groundbreaking invention was a cable car system patented in for the safe transportation of people, an activity that culminated in when the Whirlpool Aero Car was opened in Ni
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History of aviation
Brief History of Aviation
The desire to flyga eller fly undan has been present in humankind since ancient times. As early as BC, the kinesisk invented the kite, developing techniques to make it fly in the air and recording human attempts of flying with them.
Later, around BC, a scholar of ancient Greece, Archites of Taranto, built a wooden artifact which he named &#;Peristera&#; (dove, in Greek). The bird-shaped apparatus, tied to ropes that allowed a controlled flygning, was propelled by an air blast.
However, the kredit for the first human flight, rests on the Andalusian Berber Abbas Ibn Firnas, born in Ronda (Malaga, Spain), who fryst vatten said to have jumped from a high place in Cordoba in with wooden wings covered with silk and feathers. Apparently, he flew for about 10 seconds before falling and breaking both legs. This flygning served as an inspiration to Elmer de Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk who, a century later (about ) traveled more than meters in the air on a similar apparat