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Henri Coandă

1886 - 1972

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Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə] ; 7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics. In the 1950s, Coandă inflated his importance in aviation history, describing falsely how he had invented the air-breathing jet engine and incorporated that design into the Coandă-1910 aircraft. However, his ducted engine design, the "turbo-propulseur", was described in its patent as working the same way with either water or air running through. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Coandă is the 90th most popular inventor (up from 91st in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Romania (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Inventor.

Henri Coandă is most famous for his discovery of the Coanda effect, or the tendency of air to flow around objects.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henri Coandă ranks 90 out of 426. Before him are Oleg Antonov, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Raymond Damadian, Joseph Pilates, and Alphonse Bertillon. After him are Thomas Savery, André-Jacques Garnerin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johann Maria Farina, Sakichi Toyoda, and Leo Fender.

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Among people born in 1886, Henri Coandă ranks 39. Before him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Kurt Koffka, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, George Mallory, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Marcel Dupré. After him are Dong Biwu, Paul Tillich, G. I. Taylor, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Vittorio Pozzo, and Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1972, Henri Coandă ranks 32. Before him are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Maurice Chevalier, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Erhard Milch, Heinrich Lübke, and Erwin Bowien. After him are Margaret Rutherford, Ghassan Kanafani, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Jackie Robinson, Antonio Segni, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Henri Coandă ranks 57 out of 844. Before him are Gabriel Bethlen (1580), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Regalianus (250), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), George Emil Palade (1912), and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899). After him are Mircea I of Wallachia (1355), Chivu Stoica (1908), Panait Istrati (1884), Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), and Zoia Ceaușescu (1949).

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Among INVENTORS In Romania

Among inventors born in Romania, Henri Coandă ranks 1. After him are Orban (1404), Traian Vuia (1872), and Petrache Poenaru (1799).

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