Science
WHITTLE
(Sir Frank, 1907-1996, Inventor of the Jet Engine for Aircraft)
Fine Vintage Photo signed
showing him head and shoulders in his RAF uniform, looking straight at the camera, leaning his hands on a pile of papers on the desk in front of him and smoking a cigarette, 6½ x 4½, no place, no date circa
Item Date: 1940
signature very slightly faded but clear
£225
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Background
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.
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