Santos-Dumont
Americannoun
noun
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More than a century ago, The New York Times reported that an aviation pioneer named Alberto Santos-Dumont had “coined a word.”
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2019
“Kitty Hawk, we have a problem,” Lauer said: the Brazilians believe that Alberto Santos-Dumont invented flight.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 6, 2016
It's a homage to the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who flew the first practical dirigible around the Eiffel Tower in 1901.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2015
On October 19, 1901, Santos-Dumont flew his gasoline-powered dirigible around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2013
Santos-Dumont, Bleriot, Farman, Latham were all flying with airplanes, but with models radically different from that of the American brothers.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
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