Charles Joseph Fletcher
Businessperson, Academic
1922 –
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Who is Charles Joseph Fletcher?
Charles Joseph Fletcher was an American inventor and the owner and chief executive of an aeronautical equipment manufacturing and engineering company, Technology General Corporation, in Franklin, New Jersey. While a naval aviator he came up with the idea of the "Glidemobile", a vehicle using air for support. This was not made public until used in defence in a patent claim from British manufacturers of hovercraft, Fletcher holds over seventy patents.
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- Born
- Dec 21, 1922
Franklin - Also known as
- Charles Fletcher
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Lived in
- Fredon Township
- Died
- Apr 19, 2024
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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