Inventor

Whittle Frank

Patents indexed

Year range

1939

Associated with

Years active

1939

Total patents

Most recent

1939

Domains

aerospacemechanical

Activity by decade

1930s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1939

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Frank Whittle's Early Jet Engine Design

Frank Whittle's 1937 patent for an aircraft propulsion system using a gas turbine, which laid the foundation for modern jet engines.

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