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Also Known As Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
Born August 26, 1886 • Iowa
Died September 10, 1984 (aged 98) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study aerodynamics
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev
Soviet scientist
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
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Pickering, William Hayward; Johnson, Lyndon
William Hayward Pickering
American engineer and physicist
Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
American aeronautical engineer
Max Faget
Max Faget
American engineer