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Christopher Sydney Cockerell
1910 - 1999
occupation:
Electrical engineer,
Inventor,
Mechanical engineer
Nationality:
British; English
born in:
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
England
,
United Kingdom
inventor of the hovercraft
Related Objects
Hovercraft SR-N1
Sir Christopher Cockerel's tethered demonsration hovercraft model, 1955.
Demonstration model of the hovercraft principle made for Sir Christopher Cockerell, 1940s-1950s