Lawrence hargraves biography
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Lawrence Hargrave
Australian engineer and inventor (1850–1915)
Lawrence Hargrave MRAeS | |
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Lawrence Hargrave, c. 1890 | |
| Born | (1850-01-29)29 January 1850 Greenwich, England |
| Died | 6 July 1915(1915-07-06) (aged 65) |
| Nationality | Australian |
Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS,[1] (29 January 1850 – 6 July 1915)[nb 1] was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. He was perhaps best known for inventing the box kite, which was quickly adopted by other aircraft designers and subsequently formed the aerodynamic basis of early biplanes.
Biography
[edit]Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich, England, the second son of John Fletcher Hargrave (later Attorney-General of NSW),[4] and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, where there is now a DT building named in his honour. He immigrated to Australia at fifteen years of age with his family, arriving in Sydney on 5 November 1865 on the La Hogue. He accepted a place on the Ellesmere and circumnavigated Australia. Although he had shown ability in mathematics at his English school he failed the matriculation examination and in 1867 took an engineering apprenticeship with the Australasi
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Australian aviation pioneer, inventor, explorer, mason and astronomer.
"If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales. He has now constructed with his own hands no less than 18 flying machines of increasing size, all of which fly, and as a result of his many experiments (of which ,an account is about to be given) he now says, in a private letter to the writer, that: "I know that success is dead sure to come."
Octave Chanute, 1893
Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich England on January 29, 1850 and educated in England at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. In 1872 he came to Australia in search of gold, but the ship chartered by the group of adventurers was wrecked off the Queensland coast. In the 1870's after exploring in the hinterland behind Port Moresby, in June 1877 he decided to settle down and elected a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
In 1878 he was appointed an assistant astronomical observer at Sydney Observatory, a post which he held until 1883, when he retired to devote the remainder of his life to research work into problems connected with human flight.
Flying Machine No.6,