Christopher Cockerell
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (born June 4, 1910 in Cambridge , † June 1, 1999 in Hythe , Hampshire ) was a British engineer and inventor of the hovercraft .
Life
Cockerell's father, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell , was the curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum . Cockerell showed technical skills at an early age, but this did not impress his father. Even so, Cockerell took up a degree at Cambridge University after Gresham's School in Norfolk . In 1935 he joined Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company . During this time he was awarded 36 patents , most of which had to do with radio control devices for aircraft. He also worked on radar systems during World War II . In 1950 he and his wife made a small inheritance. He left Marconi and ran a boat workshop. During this time he developed the prototype of a hovercraft , which he called the hovercraft .
In 1966 Cockerell was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society . In 1969 he was knighted for his invention . In 1983 he received the James Watt Medal . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) named the Cockerell Peninsula in Antarctica after him in 1977 .
literature
- Sir Christopher Cockerell , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/1999 of September 13, 1999, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Entry to Cockerell; Sir; Christopher Sydney (1910–1999) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Individual evidence
- ^ WORLD: June 11, 1959: Christopher Cockerell invents the hovercraft . June 7, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed January 21, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cockerell, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cockerell, Christopher Sydney (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British engineer and inventor of the hovercraft |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1999 |
| Place of death | Hythe , Hampshire |