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Juan de la Cierva | |
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| Born | Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu 21 September 1895 Murcia, Spain |
| Died | 9 December 1936 (aged 41) Croydon, United Kingdom |
| Resting place | La Almudena Cemetery, Madrid, Spain |
| Alma mater | Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos |
| Occupation(s) | Civil engineer, aviator, inventor |
| Known for | Inventor of the autogyro |
| Awards | Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1932) Elliott Cresson Medal (1933) |
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft[1][2] called Autogiro,[3] a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype.
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- ^ Trevor Homer (2007). The Book of Origins: The first of everything. Hachette Digital. ISBN 978-1-405-51610-5.
- ^ Aero Digest, Feb 1939, p. 27