The Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
1943; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 151; Issue: 3837 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/151562c0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoCRITICISM has been recently made of the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hants. This institution was known during the War of 1914–18 as the Royal Aircraft Factory and prior to that as the Balloon Factory where, in 1905, Mr. S. F. Cody began glider experiments on the adjacent common. Chemists in the Royal Aircraft Establishment still use the door on which can be traced the wording, Balloon School, and the laboratories were once used by women who pieced together goldbeater skins for making the linings of balloons and the early airships. These laboratories were used during 1914–19 by Lord Cherwell (then Dr. Lindemann) and by Dr. F. W. Aston.
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