Henri Coandă
Engineer, Inventor
1886 – 1972
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Who was Henri Coandă?
Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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- Born
- Jun 7, 1886
Bucharest - Also known as
- Henri Coanda
- Henri Marie Coandă
- Parents
- Nationality
- Romania
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Sava National College
(1896 - 1899) - Technische Hochschule
(1904 - ) - Montefiore Institute
(1907 - 1908) - École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace
Aerospace Engineering
(1909 - 1910) - Technical University of Berlin
(1904 - )
- Saint Sava National College
- Lived in
- Bucharest
- Died
- Nov 25, 1972
Bucharest - Resting place
- Bellu cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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