Gentleman
We have over 20 cases in which the person listed Gentleman, or some near translation thereof, on a patent or other official document as his professional or occupational designation. They may not always have been recognized members of any nobility. These individuals are generally landowners. In fact, "Land Owner", phrased exactly as such, comes up on British patents.[1] There is some overlap with Landlord. A “privatier”, a well-heeled bourgeois, or at least “private person”, coming up in our data from the Hungarian “magánzó”, gets semantically patchy relative to any noble implications of Gentleman. These are all generally chosen self-descriptions. This is all of interest to us in terms of who funded the aero-experimentation, whether "leisure" was involved, as opposed to accomplishment, behind the filing of the patent(s). Very tentatively, we may assess some correlation between these and low quality patents. This would defy the opposite assertion, that fees, or greater fees, correlate with greater per volume patent significance or viability.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, had the title "Graf"(Count), though he is always, or almost always, treated as a significant innovator, though there are counter-stories regarding von Zeppelin. We are dealing with indicators of correlation.
- Gentlemen
- Adam Kohn
- Adolf Freiherr Odkolek von Augezd (Birth date: 1854-12-01, Death date: 1917-01-02)
- Adrien-Paul-Emile Bonnard
- Aladar de Bajza
- Albert de Dion
- Albert Sugden
- Alexis Beurrier
- Algernon Wyllie
- Ange Fabris
- Anthony O'Brate
- Arthur George Watkins
- Basil de Burgh Newth (Birth date: 1876, Death date: 1959-12-22)
- Carl Dippel
- Chester Arthur Lewis
- Count Wladimir Skorzewski
- Dario Galvão
- E. C. Hawkins
- Edmond de Marçay
- Edouard Bigourdan
- Edward Newall Molesworth-Hepworth (Birth date: 1848-07-01, Death date: 1918-01-01)
- Erhard Cecil Kny
- Ernst Herman Andrae
- Estanislao Caballero de los Olivos
- Frank Walter Bertie Hambling
- Frederick Gibbons Mitchell
- Friedrich Ludwig Bartelt
- Friedrich von Ehrenberg
- Galeazzo Perotti
- Gustav Kerwat
- Henry de La Vaulx (Birth date: 1870-04-02, Death date: 1930-04-18)
- Irwin Benedict Fuller
- Isaac Henry Storey
- James Peter Olsen Jr.
- Jean Baptiste Passat
- Jean Battistella
- Jean Georges Ramel (Birth date: 1887-04-01, Death date: 1976-10-19)
- Jesse James Dillon
- John Anderson
- John Law Garsed
- John Nevil Maskelyne (Birth date: 1839-12-22, Death date: 1917-05-18)
- John Pursell
- Joseph de Monge
- Joseph Pischiutta
- Leroy Atwell Fish
- Louis John Bergdoll
- Louis Pasquali
- Matts Jacob Mustonen
- Otto Brunner
- Paolo Campa
- Paul de Lesseps
- Philip Henry Smith
- Pietro Carcano
- Roman Andreas Pomiansky
- Rudolf Westphalen
- Sergei Tscherwinsky
- Stefan Hunyor de Visoly
- Victor Humbert
- Waldemar Porak
- William Boyd Alexander
- William Howell Walters
- William Jefferson Davis Bradford