Santos Dumont, A.

Japanese: Santos Dumont,A.(英語表記)SantosDumontA
Santos Dumont, A.


[The French overtake Wright]
France had a monopoly on the world's first flying vehicles, with the hot air balloon (1783, Montgolfier brothers), hydrogen balloon (1783, Charles), parachute (1797, Garnelin), and airship (1852, Giffard), but when it came to airplanes, it fell behind the Wright brothers in America. The first airplane to fly in France was in 1906, and it was made by Alberto Santos Dumont (1873-1932), a Brazilian living in Paris. However, France had a large number of researchers, and many of them had been working on airplane research with their own ideas since the end of the 19th century, so the results of their research all came to fruition around 1908, and airplanes with excellent performance appeared one after another.

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[ライトを追い越したフランス勢]
 空飛ぶ乗物に関しては,熱気球(1783,モンゴルフィエ兄弟),水素気球(1783,シャルル),落下傘(1797,ガルヌラン),飛行船(1852,ジファール)と“世界最初”を独占してきたフランスも,飛行機に関してはライト兄弟のアメリカに後れをとってしまった。フランスで初めて飛行機が飛んだのは1906年で,それもパリ在住のブラジル人,サントス・デュモンAlberto Santos Dumont(1873‐1932)によるものであった。しかし,フランスは研究者の層が厚く,19世紀末から多くの研究者が独自の発想で飛行機の研究に取り組んでいたので,その研究成果が1908年ころから一斉に開花して,性能の優れた飛行機が次々に現れた。…

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