Frank Whittle

Jet engines: The turbojet engine, invented in Britain in the mid-1930s by Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle, was given to the U.S company General Electric GE in 1942 to develop for use in World War II.

William Lazonick: Nine Government Investments That Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader William Lazonick 2011

But his passion and lucidity when describing the life, setbacks and breakthroughs of, among others, Frank Whittle, was awesome.

The Big Personality Test: A Child of Our Time Special; Genius of Britain; The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister; Britain's Got Talent; BBC News 2010

The gas turbine — invented by Frank Whittle, a British engineer, in the early 20th century — relies on a process of continuous combustion, with spinning fan-blades driving a compressor or turning a shaft e.g., a ship ' s propeller or producing powerful thrust through a nozzle, enough to send an airplane into the sky.

Engines of Commerce Nick Schulz 2010

Orville and Wilbur Wright are the first fathers of flight, but Frank Whittle is the mostly unheralded father of globe-spanning air travel.

Engines of Commerce Nick Schulz 2010

Nick Schulz, in his review of Vaclav Smil ' s " Prime Movers of Globalization " Bookshelf , Dec. 1, credits Frank Whittle with inventing the gas turbine.

There Were a Few Turbojet Pioneers 2010

It is easy enough to say that the jet engine is a combination of parts available to its inventors, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, but not easy to explain how such combination takes place in the minds of a Whittle or von Ohain.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

The originators of the jet engine the word “inventor” has connotations of lone eccentrics at work, so I will avoid it, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, were both aware of the limitations of the old piston-and-propeller principle and of the need for a different one.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Simultaneous and parallel work on jet airplanes in Britain, based on turbo-jet engine designed by Frank Whittle (1930).

e. Transportation and Communication 2001

Development of gas turbine unit for jet propulsion in aircraft by Frank Whittle.

5. Technological Developments 2001

Frank Whittle, the jet engine genius, failed to gain the Ministry of Defence's support, so he took to his shed and worked on the monumental invention by himself.

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