Frank Whittle was a British Royal Air Force officer and engineer who patented a turbojet engine design on January 16, 1930, but funding difficulties delayed his own engine's first flight until 1941, nearly two years after Hans von Ohain's independently developed engine had already flown in Germany.
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Invented and patented the turbojet engine independently of von Ohain.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source Turbojet, Wikipedia
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Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently into practical engines during the late 1930s.
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