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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS [1] (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer.He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine.
The Drackett Company was a leading company in the specialty chemicals business during the 20th century, responsible for such products as Windex glass cleaner, Vanish toilet bowl cleaner, Drāno drain opener, Behold furniture polish, Endust dusting aid, Renuzit air freshener, Mr. Muscle oven cleaner, and Miracle White laundry products.
Robert Goddard invented a pulsejet engine in 1931, and demonstrated it on a jet-propelled bicycle. [2] Engineer Paul Schmidt pioneered a more efficient design based on modification of the intake valves (or flaps), earning him government support from the German Air Ministry in 1933. [3]
Heinkel He 178, the world's first aircraft to fly purely on turbojet power. August: Heinkel He 178 V1, the first jet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time, powered by the HeS 3B. September: A team from the Air Ministry visits Power Jets once again, but this time Frank Whittle demonstrates a jet engine at full power for a continuous 20 ...
Renuzit cleaning fluid was originally produced by Radbill Oil Co. of Philadelphia in 1932, [1] which became Renuzit Home Products Company sometime before 1947. [2] The company was acquired by Drackett in 1969 (a child company of Bristol-Myers, which merged with Squibb in 1989).
Air fresheners from Febreze. Air fresheners are products designed to reduce unwanted odors in indoor spaces, or to introduce pleasant fragrances, or both. They typically emit fragrance to mask odors but may use other methods of action such as absorbing, bonding to, or chemically altering compounds in the air that produce smells, killing organisms that produce smells, or disrupting the sense of ...
Albert Fonó (born 2 July 1881 in Budapest, d. 21 November 1972 in Budapest), a Hungarian mechanical engineer who was one of the early pioneers of turbojet and ramjet propulsion and was first to patent a ramjet engine and a turbojet engine in 1928 (granted in 1932).
He also invented [43] the idea of the "jet wing", in which air from the compressor of a jet engine is bled off to large "augmented" vents in the wings to provide lift for VTOL aircraft. A small amount of high-pressure air is blown into a venturi , which in turn sucks a much larger volume of air along with it, thus leading to "thrust augmentation".