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Born September 30, 1882 • Lenox • Massachusetts
Died June 24, 1950 (aged 67) • New York
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Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Pilcher Hawk
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
British engineer
Eugen Sänger
Austrian engineer
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Charles Stark Draper
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Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
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Jerome C. Hunsaker
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William Hayward Pickering
American engineer and physicist
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
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Max Faget
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