WHITTLE (Sir Frank, 1907-1997, Inventor of the Jet Engine)

Newspaper Photo mounted on board and signed and dated underneath the image shows him half length resting his elbow on a globe, smoking and smiling broadly, 6” x 4”, no place, 12th March

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly (but never operational) turbojet engine.

Item Date:  1951

Stock No:  42178      £250

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