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Frederick William Lanchester

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Frederick William Lanchester was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and who co-invented the topic of operations research. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1868 1
Frederick William Lanchester
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Disc Brake, Inventions
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  • Wikipedia 'Frederick W. Lanchester': infobox birth_date, checked 2026-09-27
  • Invented: Disc Brake, Article body
    On 1 December 1902, Lanchester was awarded Patent No. 26,407 for the disc brake.
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