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81 Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 6 April 1890 Kediri, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)d. 23 December 1939 New York, USA[br]Dutch designer of German fighter aircraft during the First World War and of many successful airliners during the 1920s and 1930s.[br]Anthony Fokker was born in Java, where his Dutch father had a coffee plantation. The family returned to the Netherlands and, after schooling, young Anthony went to Germany to study aeronautics. With the aid of a friend he built his first aeroplane, the Spin, in 1910: this was a monoplane capable of short hops. By 1911 Fokker had improved the Spin and gained a pilot's licence. In 1912 he set up a company called Fokker Aeroplanbau at Johannistal, outside Berlin, and a series of monoplanes followed.When war broke out in 1914 Fokker offered his designs to both sides, and the Germans accepted them. His E I monoplane of 1915 caused a sensation with its manoeuvrability and forward-firing machine gun. Fokker and his collaborators improved on the French deflector system introduced by Raymond Saulnier by fitting an interrupter gear which synchronized the machine gun to fire between the blades of the rotating propeller. The Fokker Dr I triplane and D VII biplane were also outstanding German fighters of the First World War. Fokker's designs were often the work of an employee who received little credit: nevertheless, Fokker was a gifted pilot and a great organizer. After the war, Fokker moved back to the Netherlands and set up the Fokker Aircraft Works in Amsterdam. In 1922, however, he emigrated to the USA and established the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation in New Jersey. His first significant success there came the following year when one of his T-2 monoplanes became the first aircraft to fly non-stop across the USA, from New York to San Diego. He developed a series of civil aircraft using the well-proven method of construction he used for his fighters: fuselages made from steel tubes and thick, robust wooden wings. Of these, probably the most famous was the F VII/3m, a high-wing monoplane with three engines and capable of carrying about ten passengers. From 1925 the F VII/3m airliner was used worldwide and made many record-breaking flights, such as Lieutenant-Commander Richard Byrd's first flight over the North Pole in 1926 and Charles Kingsford-Smith's first transpacific flight in 1928. By this time Fokker had lost interest in military aircraft and had begun to see flight as a means of speeding up global communications and bringing people together. His last years were spent in realizing this dream, and this was reflected in his concentration on the design and production of passenger aircraft.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Netherlands Aeronautical Society Gold Medal 1932.Bibliography1931, The Flying Dutchman: The Life of Anthony Fokker, London: Routledge \& Sons (an interesting, if rather biased, autobiography).Further ReadingA.R.Weyl, 1965, Fokker: The Creative Years, London; reprinted 1988 (a very detailed account of Fokker's early work).Thijs Postma, 1979, Fokker: Aircraft Builders to the World, Holland; 1980, English edn, London (a well-illustrated history of Fokker and the company).Henri Hegener, 1961, Fokker: The Man and His Aircraft, Letchworth, Herts.JDS / CMBiographical history of technology > Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard
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82 electricity
электричество (1)
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[IEV number 151-11-01]EN
electricity (1)
set of phenomena associated with electric charges and electric currents
NOTE 1 – Examples of usage of this concept: static electricity, biological effects of electricity.
NOTE 2 – In English, the term "electricity" is also used to denote electric energy. In French, the usage of the term "électricité" in this sense is deprecated. For example, the expression "distribution of electricity" is used in English, but "distribution d'énergie électrique" is used in French.
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[IEV number 151-11-01]FR
électricité (1), f
ensemble de phénomènes associés à des charges électriques et à des courants électriques
NOTE 1 – Exemples d’emploi de ce concept: électricité statique, effets biologiques de l’électricité.
NOTE 2 – En anglais, le terme "electricity" est aussi utilisé au sens d'énergie électrique. En français, l'emploi du terme "électricité" est déconseillé dans ce sens. Par exemple, l'expression "distribution of electricity", employée en anglais, correspond en français à "distribution d'énergie électrique".
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[IEV number 151-11-01]электричество (2)
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[IEV number 151-11-02]EN
electricity (2)
branch of science dealing with electric phenomena
NOTE – Examples of usage of this concept: handbook of electricity, school of electricity.
[IEV number 151-11-02]FR
électricité (2), f
branche de la science traitant des phénomènes électriques
NOTE – Exemples d’emploi de ce concept: manuel d’électricité, école d’électricité.
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