Talk:Frederick W. Lanchester

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The price was right

How much did BSA pay? Trekphiler 22:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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"This is the basis of aerodynamics and the foundation of modern aerofoil theory." not so "basis" and "foundation" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.72.101.175 (talk) 23:19, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LLD?

There is no mention of where or when he obtained this qualification. It doesn't seem to fit his areas of interest/expertise. 2A02:2788:11AA:F8:E2CB:4EFF:FE88:1A2D (talk) 08:07, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

He was a polymath, according to my father, the last of those he mentored, who also painted the portrait heading the article from memory, some years after his death, when it was thought no photographs existed. 51.186.207.194 (talk) 18:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

About 'His book was not well received in England' and Prandtl

I am Russian, and because of the language it is difficult for me to edit in English. But the legend repeated here that Lanchester's aerodynamics books were poorly received is strange.

1. The books are published in German within six months.

2. Lanchester is immediately invited to speak in Germany.

3. The motorist Lanchester personally and extensively talks with Professor Prandtl (allegedly not having a common language).

4. His airfoils are tested in Göttingen (allegedly they are considered the best).

5. And it is written that in UK he is included in the Committee for Aeronautics.

That is, his work IMMEDIATELY becomes famous and influential. He is recognized as a world expert. Reasons are needed to write something else. Something other than repeating someone's dropped assessment. What does "in England" mean?

Assure, this humiliation is very important for the perception of history in Russia. And source is in the historian of aerodynamics von Karman, who is defending his professor Prandtl for failing to refer to the work of a non-academic physicist. Maybe Prandtl thought that the mathematization of other people's observations is the work of a real scientist for anonymous engineers (and I believe that this is not so).

The books were immediately accepted by researchers in different countries. They immediately influenced the development of ideas about aerodynamics there.

Эрнест мл. (talk) 12:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]