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]
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Philip Brannon
- Patent GB-1877-3974 (English title: Flying machine)
- Patent FR-1871-nq (English title: balloon steering, Filing date: 1871-01-07)
- Patent GB-1870-3272 (English title: Balloons)
Publications by or about Philip Brannon
- Brannon, 1879, The air-boat for air travel (Simple title: The air-boat for air travel)
- Brannon, 1879, The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc. (Simple title: The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc.)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 w:Philip Brannon
- ↑ London standard, Letters to the editor, 6 and 15 December 1870.
- ↑ Amy Markwick. 1989. Philip Brannon, 1817-1890. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 45, pp173-182
| Names | Philip Brannon |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 27 February 1817 |
| Death date | 11 June 1890 |
| Countries | GB |
| Locations | London; Hampshire; Isle of Wight |
| Occupations | artist, author, civil engineer, printer |
| Tech areas | Dirigibles, jets |
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