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Alphonse Pénaud

1850 - 1880

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Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the Planophore, was the first aerodynamically stable flying model. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Pénaud has received more than 89,850 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Pénaud is the 198th most popular engineer (down from 169th in 2019), the 3,379th most popular biography from France (down from 2,974th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 198 out of 389. Before him are Jorge Chávez, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Eugen Sänger, Alexander Lodygin, Franz Grashof, and Émile Levassor. After him are Walter Hohmann, Béla Barényi, Evgeny Paton, Vladimir Petlyakov, Bassel al-Assad, and Mikhail Koshkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 62. Before him are Constantin Fahlberg, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Alfred Pringsheim, Xaver Scharwenka, Victoria Benedictsson, and Edward Bellamy. After him are Wilhelm Roux, Ernest von Koerber, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Tarabai Shinde, Bharatendu Harishchandra, and Anastasia Golovina. Among people deceased in 1880, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 35. Before him are Robert Fortune, Constantin Hansen, Edwin Drake, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, and August Karl von Goeben. After him are Arthur Morin, Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Nikolay Zinin, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 3,379 out of 6,770. Before him are Éric Serra (1959), Claude Bourgelat (1712), Thierry Lhermitte (1952), Émile Levassor (1843), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Théodore Steeg (1868). After him are Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770), Jacques Delille (1738), Sophie, Countess of Bar (1018), Emma Mackey (1996), and Michel Lotito (1950).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 32. Before him are Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Michel Chevalier (1806), Jorge Chávez (1887), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), and Émile Levassor (1843). After him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Arthur Morin (1795), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), François Hennebique (1842), Émile Lemoine (1840), and Louis Dollo (1857).

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