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Significant advance. First self-propelled flight (1890) Clément Ader (2 April 1841 – 3 May 1925) [1] [2] was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. In 1870 he was also one of the pioneers in the sport of cycling ...
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Mar 1, 2024 · 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.
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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.
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Jul 1, 2013 · By Peter Grier. 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.
Oct 9, 2012 · As Clément Ader held on, his invention, the bat-winged Éole, raced forward. At the front, a huge four-bladed propeller spun furiously. Behind the prop, running with intense heat and precision, an alcohol-burning lightweight steam engine screamed — this was the key to his invention, an engine light enough and powerful enough to allow Éole ...
Jun. 30. Clément Ader, the man who invented aviation. This trained engineer, prolific and efficient inventor created with his own hands a motorized airplane which proved to be the first “heavier than air” to have left the ground, on October 9, 1890.
Special 30% offer for students! Finish the semester strong with Britannica. Learn More. Tom D. Crouch. Ader Éole, monoplane designed, built, and first tested by the French aeronautical pioneer Clément Ader in 1890. For a table of pioneer aircraft, see history of flight. Ader began work on his first powered aircraft in 1882.
