Enrico Forlanini
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Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer credited with inventing the vapor powered helicopter.
British patent data gives Forlanini as a Mechanical Engineer addressed at 21 Via Boccaccio, Milan, Kingdom of Italy.[1]
The Forliani helicopter had a propeller with diameter 2.80m and a metal sphere suspended beneath as counterweight. Weight 3500g. It was demonstrated (no pilot?) at Alexandria on 29 June 1877, and shortly thereafter in Milan.[2]
(An earlier helicopter, powered by combusion and with a short successful flight, was built by Englishman W. H. Philipps in 1842.[2]
Forliani seems to have obtained a number of international aero patents later in his life, not for a helicopter, but for a hydroaeroplane and some other technology.
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Enrico Forlanini
- Patent NO-1910-20078
- Patent IN-1907-52 (English title: Hydroplanes and aeroplanes for watercraft to raise them above the water, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1905-7603)
- Patent IT-1904-71869 (English title: Hydroplane, or airplane for water and air, Filing date: 1904-04-11)
- Patent GB-1905-7603 (English title: Apparatus for Travelling Above the Surface of Water, Supplementary to patent: Patent IT-1904-71869, Filing date: 1905-04-10)
- Patent RU-1906-21016 (English title: Hydroaeroplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent IT-1904-71869)
- Patent HU-1906-42383 (English title: Water and air vehicle, actually a quite elaborate multi-tier winged Hydroplane or Seaplane, Filing date: 1906-07-28)
- Patent GB-1907-17156 (English title: Hydro- and Aeroplane Boats, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1905-7603, Filing date: 1907-07-26)
- Patent FR-1914-476167 (English title: Dirigible with rigid shell adhering to envelope, Filing date: 1914-09-11)
- Patent US-1918-1254399 (English title: Motor-driven airship, Filing date: 1914-09-14)
- Patent GB-1914-19898 (Filing date: 1914-09-17)
- Patent BE-1914-274306 (English title: Dirigible with rigid diaphragmed shell and with armed support beams adhering thereto, Filing date: 1914-10-28)
Publications by or about Enrico Forlanini
- Forlanini, 1879, Tentatives infructueuses avant le succès (Simple title: Unsuccessful attempts before success, Journal: L'Aéronaute)
- Villeneuve, 1880, La distribution des prix de l'Institut Lombard de Milan en 1879 (Simple title: The prize distribution of the Milan Lombard Institute in 1879, Journal: L'Aéronaute)
- Hauvel, 1886, Étude d'un hélicoptère monté pour l'aéronautique militaire (Simple title: Study of a helicopter raised for military aeronautics, Journal: L'Aéronaute)
- Vialardi, 1896, L'elicoptero dell' ing. Forlanini e l'aeroplano del Sigñor Langley (Simple title: The helicopter of ing. Forlanini and the Sigñor Langley airplane, Journal: L'Aeronauta)
- Pesce, 1902, Portraits d'aéronautes contemporains. L'Ingénieur Forlanini (Simple title: Portraits of contemporary aeronauts. The Forlanini Engineer, Journal: L'Aérophile)
- Lecornu, 1903, La navigation aérienne. Histoire documentaire et anecdotique (Simple title: Air navigation. Documentary and anecdotal history.)
- Pesce, 1908, L'Hydrovolant' de l'ingénieur Forlanini (Simple title: The Hydrovolant of the engineer Forlanini, Journal: L'Aérophile)
- De Maria, 1909, Navigazione Aerea (Simple title: Aerial Navigation)
- Forlanini, 1910, Air-balloons and dirigibles (Simple title: Air-balloons and dirigibles)
- D'Arici, 1910, Les dirigeables militaires italiens (Simple title: The Italian military dirigibles, Journal: La Revue Aérienne)
- Mina, 1912, L'Ing. Enrico Forlanini (Simple title: Eng. Enrico Forlanini, Journal: Navigazione Aerea)
- Forlanini, 1914, Causes of accidents with airships (Simple title: Causes of accidents with airships, Journal: Engineering)
- Forlanini, 1914, Causes of accidents with airships. Faults of construction and maneuvering and other determining factors (Simple title: Causes of accidents with airships. Faults of construction and maneuvering and other determining factors, Journal: Scient. Amer. Suppl.)
References
| Names | Enrico Forlanini |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 1848-12-13 |
| Death date | 1930 |
| Countries | IT |
| Locations | Milan |
| Occupations | engineer, mechanical engineer |
| Tech areas | Helicopter, Steam, Marine, LTA, Propulsion, Hydroaeroplane |
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