Juan de la Cierva
(1895-1936)
Spanish engineer and count
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Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva (21 September 1895 in Murcia, Spain – 9 December 1936 in Croydon, United Kingdom) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the first helicopter called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype.
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21 September 1895 Murcia, Spain_|_Murcia, Spain
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9 December 1936 (aged 41) Croydon, United Kingdom
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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