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Louis Ferdinand Ferber (8 February 1862 – 22 September 1909) was a French Army officer who played an important role in the development of aviation during the early 1900s. Although his aircraft experiments were belatedly successful, his early recognition and publicizing of the work of the Wright Brothers was a major influence on the ...
AKA Ferdinand Ferber & Monsieur de Rue. Ferdinand Ferber (8 Feb 1862 Lyon- 22 September 1909 Boulogne-sur-mere). was one of, if not the, most scientifically minded of the early French Aviators. In many ways, it was he who brought about the great blossoming of French Aviation after 1908. A French Artilleryman, he was one of the first Frenchmen ...
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Captain (Louis) Ferdinand Ferber (1862- 1909) Perhaps best described as an important failure, Ferber was born in Lyon and entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1882. He joined the Army and rose through the military ranks as an artillery officer, eventually commanding the Alpine Artillery Battery at Nice. Ferber began emulating Lilienthal's (qv ...
Appareil de Ferber sous l'Aérodrome, L'Aviation ses débuts son développement, Ferber Ferdinand.jpg 2,343 × 1,557; 2.34 MB Ferdinand Ferber (1862-1909) in 1908.jpg 200 × 260; 18 KB Juin 1905, Ferber N°6 à moteur, roulettes avant, petits focs.png 3,265 × 2,200; 5.5 MB
Apr 8, 2009 · Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Featured. All Images; ... L'aviation; ses debuts--son développement by Ferdinand Ferber. Publication date 1908
Ferdinand Ferber was a French artillery captain who, in the years after Lilienthal's death, single-handedly kept the notion of heavier-than-air flight alive in France. He wrote exhaustively on aviation and attracted the attention of Ernest Archdeacon, another French aviation enthusiast, who had organized the Aero Club of France in 1898.
Louis Ferdinand Ferber (February 8, 1862 - September 22, 1909) Louis Ferber was the greatest forerunner of practical aviation in France. He was the first Frenchman to build life-size gliders and to test them methodically; he attempted to catch up - without their rigorous experimentation but following the same principles - with Lilienthal, Chanute and the Wrights in the experimental cycle which ...
