Frederick W. Lanchester Quotes

Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS , was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.

Lanchester became a pioneer British motor-car builder, a hobby which resulted in his developing a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers—alongside Harry Ricardo and Henry Royce.



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✵ 23. October 1868 – 8. March 1946
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Frederick W. Lanchester Quotes

“The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.”

Frederick W. Lanchester

Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight (1906), Chapter 1, page 33

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