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Inventor and engineer Clement Ader is best remembered by history for improving the design of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, and slightly less well known for being a turn-of-the-century alternate history Batman. Ader's first attempt at a functioning flying machine (no, this wasn't a fluke. Ader was all about two things: building bat-shaped ...
Clément Ader (born Feb. 4, 1841, Muret, France—died March 5, 1926, Toulouse) was a self-taught French engineer, inventor, and aeronautical pioneer. Ader constructed a balloon at his own expense in 1870. By 1873 he had turned his attention to heavier-than-air flight, constructing a winged “bird” on which he is said to have made tethered ...
Ader Éole. Clément Ader's Avion French patent 205155, 19 April 1890. The Ader Éole, also called Avion (French for aeroplane ), was an early steam -powered aircraft developed by Clément Ader in the 1890s and named after the Greco-Roman wind god Aeolus. [1]
Clément Ader, (b. Feb. 4, 1841, Muret, France--d. March 5, 1926, Toulouse) was an early enthusiast of aviation who constructed a balloon at his own expense during the Franco-German War of 1870-71. In 1876 he quit his job in the Administration of Bridges and Highways to make more money to support his hobby.
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A French daily, Le Parisienm says Clément Ader was the first man to fly (Oct 9th 1890, 13 yrs before Wilbur & Orville). His plane hangs in Paris' Musée des ...
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Oct 9, 2012 · Portrait of Clément Ader. A Lifelong Quest. Clément Ader spent years researching and working on his avion or plane, terms he invented to describe his aircraft. In the 1850s, as a teenager, he had worked on model aircraft and had proven many methods of flight on a small scale. Each model flew — or more properly glided — a short distance.
Jul 1, 2013 · July 1, 2013. Thirteen years before the Wright brothers’ pioneering flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., a French inventor named Clément Ader climbed into a bat-like contraption at an isolated French estate and made aviation history of his own. On Oct. 9, 1890, Ader opened the throttle on his steam-powered aircraft Éole and roared down a level 700 ...
