Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
Engineer, Inventor
1888 – 1979
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Who was Georges Jean Marie Darrieus?
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.
The invention is described in the 1931 US patent 1,835,018
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1888
Toulon - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 15, 1979
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on July 23, 2013
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