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Alphonse Pénaud

1850 - 1880

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Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the Planophore, was the first aerodynamically stable flying model. He went on to design a full-sized aircraft with many advanced features, but was unable to get any support for the project, and eventually committed suicide in 1880, aged 30. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Pénaud is the 175th most popular engineer (up from 198th in 2019), the 3,152nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,380th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 175 out of 389. Before him are Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Riccardo Morandi, Gustave Whitehead, Louis Charles Breguet, and Hanns Hörbiger. After him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Alexander Mozhaysky, Gérard Larrousse, John Smeaton, Ma Jun, and Kerim Kerimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 56. Before him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Edward Bellamy, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Jean-François Raffaëlli, and Cut Nyak Dhien. After him are Gregory VII of Constantinople, Josias von Heeringen, Augusto Righi, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Alfred Edwards, and Victoria Benedictsson. Among people deceased in 1880, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 34. Before him are Jules Favre, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Friedrich Bayer, Lucretia Mott, and Napoléon Henri Reber. After him are Sunanda Kumariratana, Robert Fortune, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, and Edmond Albius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 3,152 out of 6,770. Before him are Édith Scob (1937), Denise Perrier (1935), Jean-François Stévenin (1944), Amédée Courbet (1827), Antoine Caron (1521), and Théodore Steeg (1868). After him are Dominique Lapierre (1931), Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Gabriel Bibron (1805), and Bénézet (1165).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 23. Before him are Georges Leclanché (1836), Marc Seguin (1786), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), and Louis Charles Breguet (1880). After him are Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Louis Dollo (1857), Jorge Chávez (1887), and Marc Isambard Brunel (1769).

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