Félix du Temple de la Croix
Félix du Temple de la Croix (18 July 1823 – 4 November 1890) (usually simply called Félix du Temple) was a French naval officer and an inventor. He developed some of the first flying machines and is credited with the first successful flight of a powered aircraft of any sort, a powered model plane, in 1857,and is sometimes credited with the first manned powered flight in history onboard his Monoplane in 1874, twenty-nine years before the 1903 flight of the Wright brothers. He was a contemporary of Jean-Marie Le Bris, another French flight pioneer who was active in the same region of France.
Du Temple built an ornithopter-type aircraft, a light "canoe" with two flapping wings, powered by a newly-designed steam engine.[1]
Paris (22, rue Louis-le-Grand, Seine) is the address by way of which he registered his 1857 patent.
(Within the INPI advanced search pages, for purposes of re-finding 1857 patent, I've succeeded by way using no inventor name, and simply the year range 1857-1857, and the simple keyword "oiseaux", from "locomotive aérienne par imitation du vol des oiseaux". This is peculiar, in that the material was first found by way of a search using the keyword "aér". Protocols within INPI have been changing, though the overall data is gradually on the increase. I presently have no patent # data on the monoplane of 1874, mentioned in the Wikipedia article linked below.)
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Félix du Temple de la Croix
- Patent FR-1857-mt (Filing date: 1857-05-02)
- Patent FR-1857-32031 (English title: aerial locomotion by way of imitation of bird flight, Filing date: 1857-05-02)
References
- ↑ Banet-Rivet, 1898, L'Aéronautique, p. 201.
