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  1. Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ( [ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft [1] [2] called Autogiro, [3] a single-rotor type of ...

  2. Apr 18, 2024 · Juan de la Cierva (born September 21, 1895, Murcia, Spain—died December 19, 1936, London, England) was a Spanish aeronautical engineer who invented the autogiro, an aircraft in which lift is provided by a freely rotating rotor and which served as the forerunner of the helicopter.

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  3. Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu (Murcia, 21 de septiembre de 1895-Croydon, 9 de diciembre de 1936) [1] fue un ingeniero, aviador y político español, inventor del autogiro, un precursor del helicóptero. Ganó diversos reconocimientos y premios de asociaciones aeronáuticas tanto nacionales como extranjeras.

  4. Aug 22, 2017 · Born on September 21, 1895, he became interested in aeronautics as a teenager and studied the work of Samuel Langley, Clément Ader, Octave Chanute and other pioneers of glider flight. With several friends, Cierva built two gliders in 1911, but both crashed.

  5. Nov 27, 2023 · Don Juan de la Cierva explicando el funcionamiento del nuevo autogiro en Hamworth, el 27 de abril de 1933. Cordon Press De la Cierva también se hizo mundialmente famoso por atravesar el Canal de la Mancha por primera vez con uno de sus aparatos.

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  7. Sep 21, 2015 · The autogyro is the invention of Juan de la Cierva. Discover with OpenMind the history of the Spanish aviator and a device that anticipated the helicopter.

  8. May 17, 2018 · Spanish Aeronautical Engineer 1895–1936. Juan de la Cierva Codorniu was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1895. Today he is remembered as the inventor of the autogiro , a forerunner of the helicopter.

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