Search Details

Word: damblanc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Vertical Flight | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...engine at a constant value. Such compressors have introduced great complexity and additional weight into the power plant. Paul Painleve, momentarily abandoning his Presidential Chair in the Chamber of Deputies to return to his old haunts at the Academy of Sciences, announces an invention by Louis Damblanc, builder of the Damblanc helicopter, which is to achieve the same end with far less complication. The cables tell us little except that the device is of insignificant volume, weighs only 16 pounds and is adapted to the interior of the engine. A plausible guess is that the device increases the air (oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: High Flying | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

| 1 |