Frank Whittle

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Frank Whittle

Engineering

#45

World Rank

#98

Historical Rank

Aerospace Engineering

#10

World Rank

#14

Historical Rank

Applied Physics

#3120

World Rank

#3190

Historical Rank

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Why Is Frank Whittle Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly turbojet engine.

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