Alberto Santos-Dumont: pioneiro da aviação
The lifework of Santos-Dumont is an important mark in 20th Century, once it has accelerated the aeronautics development. In less than ten years, the Brazilian flyer has got to solve two problems which afflicted the inventors: the balloons maneuverability, a challenge since the 18th Century, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Nove de Julho
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Exacta |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81040103 |
| Summary: | The lifework of Santos-Dumont is an important
mark in 20th Century, once it has accelerated
the aeronautics development. In less than ten
years, the Brazilian flyer has got to solve two
problems which afflicted the inventors: the
balloons maneuverability, a challenge since
the 18th Century, and the flight of the airplane,
which had concentrated the efforts of important
scientists and engineers. Santos-Dumonts
biography shows the trajectory of a useful and
creative inventor who, giving his contributions to
aeronautical progress, applied himself, worked
perseveringly, to the popularization of the
human flight. At the end of his life, depressed,
committed suicide. His conquests transformed
him into a national hero; despite very honored
is relatively little known. In the centenary of
the historys first homologated flight, the 14-bis
flight, its opportune to bend over his history
and to understand the ways of invention. |
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| ISSN: | 1678-5428 1983-9308 |