1907 - 1996
Frank Whittle American Inventor
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Frank Whittle is a member of the following lists: Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Royal Air Force officers and People from Coventry.
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First Name |
Frank
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Last Name |
Whittle
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Birthday |
1st June, 1907
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Birthplace |
Earlsdon, Coventry, England.
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Died |
9th August, 1996
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Place of Death |
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation Text |
RAF Engineer Officer
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Occupation |
Inventor
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain who was the designer of the first operational turbojet engine.