Hovercraft Timeline 1 - Timeline Help

Hovercraft timeline 1 of 8 from 1716 to 1959 at Timeline Help. A hovercraft is some kind of a amphibious vehicle for high speed travel on the ground or water on a cushion of air powered by air propellers or jet engines. Sometimes the boat is called an ACV,

air-cushion vehicle. I like hovercrafts! I once have been on a SR-N4 type when I was on holiday in the British city of Dover in the eighties. The steaming propellers, the huge waves around you at sea, and of course the sound of hard working machines... It's remarkable that there is hardly no disturbing noise in the passengers cabine, it is if like you are sitting in a air plane. If you ever have the chance to make a trip on some kind of an air-cushion vehicle, just do it! The feeling and the sensational experience are the reasons why I've created this hovercraft timeline. Lets dive into the past

and discover how this amazing amphibious boat vehicle was invented, developed and improved over time. From the early odd experiments and inventors to modern applications, it is all written down on the next nine pages in my extended hovercraft timeline.

- 1716 - 1877 - 1870s - 1915 - 1927 - 1931 - 1940s - 1952 - 1956 - 1957 - 1958 - 1959

Swedish designer Emmanual Swedenborg produces the first hovercraft design, lifted by human powered oars. British shipbuilder John Thornycroft constructs and patents some boats using air lubricated hulls. British engineer Mark Daniel Webber builds a test model using air force between the hull of a boat and the water. Austro-Hungarian navy officer Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl builds the first workable hovercraft-like vehicle, called Versuchsgleitboot System Thomamühl. Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky discusses the theory of air-cushion crafts in his book Air Resistance and The Express Train. Finnish engineer Toivo Kaario constructs and patents an air-cushion vehicle. American inventor Charles Joseph Fletcher builds his Glidemobile, some see him as the inventor of the hovercraft. The United States Department of War classifies his creation. English engineer Christopher Cockerell invents and tests the hovercraft. British military authorities classify it as national secret. The Ministry of Supply permits the Saunders Roe aviation company to check the possibilities. The National Research and Development Corporation helps Cockerell with patenting. The Saunders Roe aviation company builds the SR-N1 also known as the Saunders Roe Nautical One. American scientist W. Bertelsen develops his prototype the Aeromobile 35-B. Demonstration of the Saunders Roe Nautical One at the Isle of Wight. July 25 First SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel between Calais - France and Dover - United Kingdom. December The Duke of Edinburgh damages the SR-N1 during a test flight.

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Bibliography of Hovercraft Timeline 1

Ditch, W (1961). Hovercraft development.
Sibley, W (1962). Hydroplanes. Mechanical Age Library.
Desoutter, D (1965). Your Book of Hovercraft.
Halacy, D (1966). Shipbuilders From Clipper Ships to Submarines to Hovercraft.



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