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Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) Juan de la Cierva, Autogiro inventor ... D.E. President Harold F. Pitcairn of Autogiro Co. of America .... D.M.E. Alan Hazeltine, radio neutrodyne inventor .... Sc.D...
...kept its cruising speed well under 100 m.p.h. Last week New York University announced that its Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics would undertake 'giro speed as a special problem, with funds provided by Harold F. Pitcairn, president of Autogiro Co. of America, U. S. developer of the Cierva invention. Under direction of famed Professor Alexander Klemin, the rotor problem will be tackled by one Joseph Rosen, graduate of the school...
Awarded. To Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor of the autogiro: the 1932 Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for promotion of aeronautics...
...Last week in London it was discovered that Senor Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the Autogiro, has built and flown a wingless craft which attains terrific speed, ascends steeply and descends gently by means of 'giro-like vanes...
...Madrid potent Juan de la Cierva, father of the famed inventor of the autogiro, agreed with Count de Romanones that the manifesto is genuine, expressed his disgust at the depths of hypocrisy it revealed. It was understood that Count de Romanones and Juan de la Cierva proposed to join forces, founding a new Monarchist Party to elevate as King of Spain someone other than Don Alfonso XIII...