Search results for "George Cayley" - New World Encyclopedia

Sir George Cayley is credited as the first person to separate the ... Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person ...

she became engaged to the linguist Charles Cayley, best known for translating ... and Thomas à Kempis. She also admired George Herbert and John Donne. ...

Sir George Cayley (1773-1857), the "father of aerodynamics," also used a whirling arm to measure the drag and lift of various airfoils ...

Sir George Cayley, the inventor of the science of aerodynamics, was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as 1803, and he ...

general theorem which today is known as the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem). Hamilton also invented "Icosian Calculus," which he used to investigate ...

*Harper Handbook to Literature (with Sheridan Baker and George W. Perkins) ... *Northrop Frye in Conversation (an interview with David Cayley) ...

balloon) aircraft to be flown in Europe was Sir George Cayley's series of gliders which achieved brief wing-borne hops from around 1804. Santos ...

century to the 20th although the work of Sir George Cayley has recently been dated as being from the last decade of the 18th century. Early knowledge ...

Victoria's son Edward VII and his son George V reigned as members of this ... Beard Budding, lawnmower inventor; George Cayley, seat belt inventor; ...

Drawing on the work of Sir George Cayley, Chanute, Lilienthal, Leonardo da Vinci, and Langley, they began their mechanical aeronautical experimentation ...