Word: kollsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Paul Kollsman, 82, German-born aeronautical engineer whose fertile imagination earned him patents for hundreds of inventions, most notably for the Kollsman altimeter, which revolutionized aviation in 1928 by using the barometric pressure to calculate with still unmatched accuracy the altitude of an aircraft, thereby enabling pilots to fly "blind"; in Los Angeles...