Английская Википедия:Carl Friedrich Meerwein
Шаблон:Short description Carl Friedrich Meerwein (2 August 1737 – 6 December 1810) was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer.
Meerwein was born in Leiselheim. He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica he succeeded in flying with one of these devices, an ornithopter in 1781, at Giessen, Germany. Further attempts were less successful. There is a legend that he only survived one of his flights in 1784 because he hit exactly upon a dung pile.[1]
"Meerwein, the architect of the Prince of Baden, built an orthopteric machine, and protested against the tendency of the aerostats which had just been invented." (Verne, Robur)
Meerwein died in Emmendingen, as a result of a fall from a horse.
Notes
Sources
- This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia.
Further reading
- "Airplane:History of Flight" (2007) Encyclopædia Britannica Retrieved May 17, 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica
- Hart, Clive (1972)The dream of flight: aeronautics from classical times to the Renaissance Faber and Faber, London, Шаблон:ISBN
External links
- Sportfliegerclub Carl Friedrich Meerwein e.V. Emmendingen
- Encyclopædia Britannica: history of transportation
Шаблон:Aviation-bio-stub
Шаблон:Germany-engineer-stub
- ↑ Untucht, Peter (2003) Freiburg und die Regio DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne, Germany, page 164, Шаблон:ISBN, in German
- Английская Википедия
- Aviation inventors
- Aviation pioneers
- 18th-century German inventors
- German aviators
- German civil engineers
- 1737 births
- 1810 deaths
- People from Worms, Germany
- Engineers from Rhineland-Palatinate
- Страницы, где используется шаблон "Навигационная таблица/Телепорт"
- Страницы с телепортом
- Википедия
- Статья из Википедии
- Статья из Английской Википедии