Philip Brannon

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Philip Brannon was an artist, engraver, writer, printer, architect, civil engineer, aero inventor who registered patents in the French and British offices during the 1870s.[1]

From en.wp[1]: Patent GB-1870-3272 was Brannon's first patent and was for "the construction of navigable balloons."

Brannon was an enthusiast for powered flight, advocating the use of dirigible balloons to relieve the siege of Paris in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.[2] In 1879 he published The Air-boat for arcustatic air-travel to advertise more widely his concept of the Arcustat, a dirigible airship which used a novel form of jet propulsion and was not reliant on gas or hot air for buoyancy. He sought in vain to interest the Royal Aeronautical Society in the design, which failed to reach the prototype stage.[3]

This person had 2 publications and 3 patents in this database.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Philip Brannon

Publications by or about Philip Brannon

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 w:Philip Brannon
  2. ↑ London standard, Letters to the editor, 6 and 15 December 1870.
  3. ↑ Amy Markwick. 1989. Philip Brannon, 1817-1890. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 45, pp173-182


Names Philip Brannon
Countries GB
Locations London, Hampshire, Isle of Wight
Occupations artist, author, civil engineer, printer
Tech areas Dirigibles, jets
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Birth date 27 February 1817
Death date 11 June 1890
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