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
Very well, then Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian living in Paris, “the father of aviation,” is the holder of those laurels.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2013
Santos-Dumont was built to jockey a Pegasus or guide an air-ship, for he weighed but a hundred pounds when he made his first ascensions, and added very little live ballast as he grew older.
From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell
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