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Noun Named Entity
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Whittle  Frank Whittle  Sir Frank Whittle  Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle  Jet engine development
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English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) WordNet 3.0
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English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force air officer. Wikipedia
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer Wikidata
IS A
aeronautical engineer
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ARCHIVES AT
Churchill Archives Centre
AWARD RECEIVED
Franklin Medal
Royal Designer for Industry
Order of Merit
National Aviation Hall of Fame
Albert Medal
+11 relations
CAUSE OF DEATH
lung cancer
CONFLICT
World War II
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
Royal Air Force College Cranwell
Peterhouse, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
Royal Air Force
FAMILY NAME
Whittle
FIELD OF WORK
mechanical engineering
GIVEN NAME
Frank
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MILITARY BRANCH
Royal Air Force
MILITARY RANK
air commodore
OCCUPATION
pilot
engineer
aerospace engineer
aeronautical engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Coventry
PLACE OF BURIAL
Lincolnshire
PLACE OF DEATH
Columbia
SEX OR GENDER
male
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Whittle, Frank Whittle, Sir Frank Whittle
Wikipedia
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Frank Whittle
Wikidata
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Frank Whittle
Wikipedia Redirections
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Jet engine development, Sir Frank Whittle, Whittle, Frank
Wikidata Alias
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, Sir Frank Whittle

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