Romeo Wankmüller

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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

References

  1. Patent GB-1910-9986
  2. Patent GB-1911-2636
  3. Patent US-1910-1013342
  4. Patent US-1911-1000865
  5. Patent US-1911-1005097
  6. Patent GB-1912-14750
  7. Volume 8: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914-1918 (English translation supplement) page 521


Names Romeo Wankmüller
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Death date
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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