Romeo Wankmüller
Romeo Wankmüller was an aero inventor, an Engineer addressed at Oldenburgerstrasse 35, Berlin, N.W., in the German Empire.[1]
Slightly later, we still have him as an Engineer, addressed at 27/28 Fritsche Strasse (possibly Fritschestrasse), Charlottenberg, near Berlin, Germany.[2]
We have him filing repeatedly, in America, in conjunction with Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H..[3][4][5]
Although it is only Wankmüller's patented work with airship signaling which points us to a German original, the diagrams in that work include a balloon-airship type which are evocative of his airship work more generally, leading us to think that he had been thinking of one airship type all along.
We have him later as a Managing Director, addressed at No. 5/6, Unter den Linden, Berlin, in the German Empire.[6] We aren't sure about the nature of the production at the firm at which he was a Managing Director. This patent has to do with holders for incandescent lamps, with only a possible tie-in to his earlier work with signaling pertinent to the airship.
In 1918 Wankmüller corresponded with Albert Einstein about aeronautics. He wrote, "I convey to you a program for the convention of the regular members of the Scientific Society for Aviation in Hamburg from 16-18 April" (1918) and mentioned Dr. von Parseval and aeronautical mathematiker Ludwig Prandtl.[7]
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Romeo Wankmüller
- Patent GB-1910-9986 (English title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Signalling from Airships or Dirigible Balloons, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-06-09 Romeo Wankmüller, Filing date: 1910-04-23)
- Patent US-1910-1013342 (English title: Means for signalling from airships and the like, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-06-09 Romeo Wankmüller, Filing date: 1910-05-11)
- Patent GB-1911-2636 (English title: Improvements in Air ships and the like, Filing date: 1911-02-01)
- Patent US-1911-1000865 (English title: Airship, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-2636, Filing date: 1911-02-09)
- Patent US-1911-1005097 (English title: Airship, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-2636, Filing date: 1911-06-26)
- Patent CA-1911-140668 (English title: Signal for airships, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-06-09 Romeo Wankmüller, Filing date: 1911-09-12)
- Patent CA-1911-140669 (English title: Suspension of airship cars, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-2636, Filing date: 1911-09-12)
- Patent GB-1912-14750 (English title: Improvements in Holders for Electric Incandescent Lamps, Filing date: 1912-06-24)
References
- ↑ Patent GB-1910-9986
- ↑ Patent GB-1911-2636
- ↑ Patent US-1910-1013342
- ↑ Patent US-1911-1000865
- ↑ Patent US-1911-1005097
- ↑ Patent GB-1912-14750
- ↑ Volume 8: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914-1918 (English translation supplement) page 521
| Names | Romeo Wankmüller |
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| Countries | CA, DE, GB, US |
| Locations | Berlin; Charlottenberg, near Berlin |
| Occupations | Engineer, Manager, managing director |
| Tech areas | Airship, Signals, Suspension, Nacelle, Illumination |
| Affiliations | Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
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