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Alberto Santos Dumont was a Brazilian engineer, scientist and best known as an aviation pioneer. He was born on July 20th in 1873, in Brazil. He designed and built several balloons as well as the first dirigible. He later developed a heavier-than-air-machine that could take off by its own mean. He died in Brazil on July 23, 1932.
Alberto Santos Dumont was an engineer and scientist, but mainly known as the aviation pioneer. He was born on July 20th in 1873 in the village of Cabangu, nowdays named as “Santos-Dumont”, Brazil. He designed and built several balloons and the first dirigible airship, with which he won the “Deutsch Prize” making a controlled flight around the Eiffel Tower. Later on, he developed a Heavier-Than-Air machine capable of taking off by its own means, an airplane with which he won the “Prize Archdeacor” on October 23th in 1906, flying a distance of 220 meters. For many contemporaries Santos-Dumont was the father of modern aviation and the first to achieve a ratified and controlled flight (Take off-Flight-Landing) using a completely autonomous airplane. Alberto Santos Dumont felt sick and depressed, possibly of sclerosis multiple which drove him to suicide on 23th July in 1932 in Brazil.
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variant spelling:
Santos Dumont, Alberto
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Curriculum vitae
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* 20.07.1873
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Cabangu, Brazil
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Alberto Santos Dumont was born.
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1892
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Paris, France
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He moved from Brazil to Paris, France where he took classes.
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1898
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Paris, France
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He built a balloon named “Brazil”, also another one named “Amerique” and an unsuccesful dirigible.
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1899
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Paris, France
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He presented his second but unsuccesful dirigible. Later that same year, he succeeded with his third dirigible.
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19.10.1901
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Paris, France
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He flew on a dirigible around the Eiffel Tower winning the Deutsch Prize.
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1905
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France
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The “Federation Aéronautique International” was founded arising the criteria for a Heavier-than-air machine feasibility
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July 1906
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France
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The 14-bis was ready for the first test
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12.11.1906
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Paris, France
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After some modifications, the 14-Bis flew a 220 meters distance, thus, making this the first ratified flight.
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November 1907
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France
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He tested the first “Demoiselle”
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1909
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France
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He presented his last invention the “Demoiselle No. 20”
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† 23.07.1932
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Guarujá, Brazil
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Alberto Santos Dumont died.
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