Frederick Marriott
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Frederick Marriott was an aero inventor and entrepreneur who emigrated from England to San Francisco. He created a propeller-drive airship called the Avitor which made two tethered unpiloted flights in San Jose, in 1869. This prototype was destroyed in a fire and Marriott never got funding for his transcontinental air travel idea.[1]
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Frederick Marriott
- Patent US-1869-97100 (English title: Aerial steam car)
- Patent GB-1869-2827 (English title: Navigable ballons)
Publications by or about Frederick Marriott
- Parramore, 2002, First to Fly (Simple title: First to Fly)
- Parramore, 2002, First to Fly (Simple title: First to Fly)
References
- ↑ Hallion, 2003, p. 85. "... he proposed building a craft blending the characteristics of an airplane and an airship. Accordingly his Avitor featured a graceful swept delta wing running from the nose of the airship to a point halfway along its length. Superimposed in the trailing edges of the wing were propellers driven by a steam engine buried in the middle of the airship envelope. Though the precise dimensions of this airship are unknown (estimates running from a low of 28 feet to a high of 97), it did complete two unmanned, tethered, powered flights at San Jose in July 1869 before enthusiastic witnesses."
