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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 84,644 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alphonse Pénaud is the 171st most popular engineer (up from 173rd in 2019), the 2,984th most popular biography from France (down from 2,802nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 171 out of 323Before him are Louis Charles Breguet, Émile Levassor, Rory Byrne, Kelly Johnson, Arthur Morin, and Béla Barényi. After him are Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, Henryk Dembiński, Hugo Eckener, and Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 56Before him are Princess Therese of Bavaria, Xaver Scharwenka, Enrico Cecchetti, David Schwarz, Victoria Benedictsson, and Wilhelm Roux. After him are Kiyoura Keigo, Ernest von Koerber, Josias von Heeringen, Alfred Edwards, Aleksander Gierymski, and Charles Doolittle Walcott. Among people deceased in 1880, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 32Before him are Raden Saleh, Robert Fortune, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, and Arthur Morin. After him are Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, Lucretia Mott, Edwin Drake, and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 2,984 out of 6,011Before him are Léon Brunschvicg (1869), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), José Giovanni (1923), Peter Chanel (1803), Michel Blavet (1700), and Didier Auriol (1958). After him are Nicolas de Grigny (1672), Camille Guérin (1872), Charles Angrand (1854), Gérard Blain (1930), Zino Francescatti (1902), and Déodat de Séverac (1872).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Alphonse Pénaud ranks 28Before him are Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Émile Levassor (1843), and Arthur Morin (1795). After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Michel Chevalier (1806), Louis Dollo (1857), Evgeny Paton (1870), and Adolphe Alphand (1817).