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Louis Blériot
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French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
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Louis Blériot (1872–1936) was a French aircraft pilot, engineer, inventor, and aerospace engineer. Born in Cambrai, he received his education at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the École Centrale Paris. His professional field was aerospace engineering, and he was associated with the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne. Blériot was awarded the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honour.
He authored several works, including *Blériot - Flight into the XXth Century* and *L'envol du XXe siècle : Blériot Aéronautique - Blériot, SPAD, Blanchard, Guillemin*. Assen Jordanoff was a student of his. Blériot died of a myocardial infarction in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière des Gonards.
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Person · Open Library
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Top works
- Blériot - Flight into the XXth Century
- Blériot
- Léon Delagrange
- L'envol du XXe siècle : Blériot Aéronautique - Blériot, SPAD, Blanchard, Guillemin
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- <i>WinGX</i>suite for small-molecule single-crystal crystallography
· 1999 · cited 15,221x
- The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary
· 2016 · cited 13,388x
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Encyclopedic overview
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (/ˈblɛrioʊ/ BLERR-ee-oh, also US: /ˈbleɪrioʊ, ˌbleɪriˈoʊ, blɛərˈjoʊ/ BLAY-ree-oh, -OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ʃaʁl ʒozɛf bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first aeroplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 (worth £152,113 in 2025) offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. He was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
Early years
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