Georges Jean Marie Darrieus

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French aerospace engineer

Places

France

was

Engineer Aerospace engineer

Work field

Engineering Science

Gender

Male

Birth

24 September 1888 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Toulon, arrondissement of Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Star sign

Libra People who share this birthday

Death

15 July 1979 People who died on this day

Age

90 years

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Biography

Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 – 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.

The invention is described in the 1931 US patent 1,835,018

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