Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. In 1909 he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. and the founder of a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
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Alias (AKA) | Blériot Louis Charles Joseph |
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Birth date | July 01, 1872 |
Birth name | Louis Charles Joseph Blériot |
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Date of death | August 01, 1936 |
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=wN8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA573&dq=Popular+Science+1935+plane+%22Popular+Mechanics%22&hl=en&ei=aJgvTv3XKdSgsQLVyIRv&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=true
- http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/Herrick/images/MTH15.jpg
- http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Bleriot/DI11.htm
- http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/bleriot.html
- http://www.dover2009.com
- http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/BHC_RTV/1929/01/01/BGT407141060
- http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/image/19159297242031979052
- http://www.panoramio.com/photo/30006181
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bleriot