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	Christopher Cockerell: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 - June 1, 1999) was a British engineer, inventor of the hovercraft.
		Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum[?].
		Cockerell was knighted in 1969 for his services to engineering.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ch/Christopher-Cockerell.html (254 words)

	Eminent Engineers - Christopher Cockerell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir Christopher Cockerell of UK was the inventor of the "Hovercraft" - the vehicle that moved on an air-cushion.
		Cockerell started his boat building business in the early 1950s after his stint in radio and television transmission with Marconi during the pre and post-world war period.
		Cockerell was knighted in 1969 and left for the heavenly abode in 1999 at the age of 88.
	members.tripod.com /ramshome/emens/cockerell.html (289 words)

	NASAexplores 9-12 Lesson: Hovercraft (Student Sheets)
		Cockerell idea was to build a vehicle that would move over the water's surface, floating on a layer of air.
		Cockerell came up with the word too, which was recently chosen to represent 1959 in the 100 words, which encapsulate the 20th century for the millennium edition of the Collins English Dictionary.
		During the war years Cockerell worked with an elite team at Marconi to develop radar, a development which Churchill believed had a significant effect on the outcome of the Second World War, and Cockerell believed to be one of his greatest achievements.
	www.nasaexplores.com /show_912_student_st.php?id=030106115321 (516 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Life of a pioneer
		Cockerell was an intensely patriotic man. Despite very poor rewards for his work in the UK, he refused offers of jobs with American competitors.
		Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born on 4 June 1910 in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
		Sir Christopher's first notable invention for Marconi was a two-needle direction finder, a device which during the war brought thousands of Allied airmen home safely.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/359538.stm (620 words)

	Sir Christopher Cockerell
		Christopher Cockerell was initially testing out the idea that it was possible to produce a cushion of air between the bottom of the tins and the surface of the scales.
		Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born in 1910 in a house called 'Wayside' in Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge, the son of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, sometime private secretary to Sir William Morris and from 1908 to 1937 Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
		Cockerell left Marconi in 1950, and with a legacy left by his beloved wife Margaret’s father, he and Margaret were able to purchase a small boatyard in Norfolk.
	www.hovercraft-museum.org /cockerell.html (2352 words)

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		Cockerell solved that by cleverly making the shape of the hull concave and angling air jets from the circumference in toward the center of the craft.
		Cockerell’s dreams of great ocean liners, military assault vehicles, and automobiles were not to be, owing to a variety of technical limitations on the technology.
		Cockerell was justified in expressing his widely publicized opinion that Britain was hostile to inventors.
	www.goodbyemag.com /mar99/cockerell.html (790 words)

	Engology.com, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Engineer-Inventor, Professional/Chartered Engineering, Women in Engineering, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir Christopher Cockerell was one of the most remarkable inventors of the 20th Century.
		Born in 1910 near Cambridge, Sir Christopher's scientific bent was nurtured at Gresham's School at Holt in Norfolk.
		Sir Christopher Cockerell died on the 40th anniversary of the launch of the hovercraft, June 1st 1999.
	www.engology.com /eng5cockerell.htm (210 words)

	Slipcue.com Obituary Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cockerell had hundreds of patents to his name, including more than 50 associated with the hovercraft, which rides on a cushion of air.
		Cockerell's penchant for tinkering was developed in the face of early rejections.
		Cockerell pawned family jewelry to keep his research going, and in 1957, after he had advised government officials that the Swiss were working on hovering technologies, he was able to approach the National Research Development Corp., a government-financed agency that was supposed to promote inventions.
	www.slipcue.com /obits/02/05.html (1641 words)

	Christopher Cockerell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft.
		Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curater of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been da secretary of William Morris.
		Christopher Cockerell was educated at Gresham's School, Holt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Cockerell (182 words)

	Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cockerell was a brilliant radio engineer who was retired from the army and operated a boatyard on the Norfolk Broads.
		Sir Christopher Cockerell's theory was that instead of using the plenum chamber – an open-bottomed empty box such as Thornycroft had devised – if air could instead be pumped into a narrow tunnel around the perimeter of the underneath side of the craft, it would flow toward the center, creating a more effective air cushion.
		Cockerell's hovercraft had all the appearance of a safe and inexpensive new type of flying machine and many saw the hovercraft as an affordable airplane.
	www.neoterichovercraft.com /general_info/historyof.htm (7466 words)

	iWannaGetThat - Retroville - 1956 - In the News - Hovercraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Hovercraft, the brainchild of Sir Christopher Cockerell, was patented as a finished design in 1956, but it was very nearly not built at all.
		In 1969, the British Crown knighted Christopher Cockerell in recognition of his vast achievements.
		By inserting a cat food tin into a coffee tin, and blowing a jet of air through the gap between the walls of the inner and outer tins, he demonstrated the possibility of a machine that could one day travel on a cushion of air.
	www.iwannagetthat.com /NewFiles/1956-hovercraft.html (738 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Hovercraft 'genius' dies
		The inventor of the hovercraft, Sir Christopher Cockerell, has died on the 40th anniversary of its launch.
		Sir Christopher was the son of Sir Sydney Cockerell, the curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, and the acclaimed manuscript illuminator Florence Kingsford.
		Sir Christopher won the government over to his creation with a demonstration in a basement room at Whitehall, where the gathered experts were forced to dodge a small craft buzzing around inches above the floor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/359503.stm (518 words)

	Fly a Hovercraft - a cruise report - worth reading - 4wings Hovercraft development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cockerell, while running a small boatyard on the Norfolk Broads in the early 1950's, began by exploring the use of air lubrication to reduce hydrodynamic drag, employing first a punt, then a 20 knot ex-Naval launch as a test craft.
		This would create a jet of high pressure air that would move under the hull and be retained to a certain extent by the jet line that formed the curtain effect, the balance of the air being ejected through ports at the rear of the craft for propulsion.
		After reading about Cockerell's experiments, he thought about the size of the waves that these craft would likely encounter in the English Channel and the Atlantic, and was convinced that this clearly called for some form of flexible skirt to contain the air cushion and enable vessels to traverse significantly rougher surfaces.
	4wings.com.phtemp.com /faq/faq-his.html (2078 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jun 1
		The hovercraft was invented by Christopher Cockerell, an Englishman born in 1910.
		Cockerell had to pawn his belongings just to feed his family.
		Cockerell's invention earned him very little money, although he did receive a knighthood in 1969.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/jun1.htm (279 words)

	Inventors
		Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born in 1910 at Cherry Hinton near Cambridge, the son of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, sometime private secretary to Sir William Morris and from 1908 to 1937 Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
		The theory behind one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century, the Hovercraft, was originally tested in 1955 using an empty KiteKat cat food tin inside a coffee tin, an industrial air blower and a pair of kitchen scales.
		On 25th July 1959, she made a crossing of the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, with Cockerell aboard as human ballast, on the 50th anniversary of the first aeroplane crossing of the Channel.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/inventors.htm (1968 words)

	The inventor of the Hovercraft dies
		The funeral of the inventor of the Hovercraft, Sir Christopher Cockerell has taken on Thursday in a private ceremony on England's south coast.
		Sir Christopher was one of Britain's most original scientific minds and had a string of inventions to his name.
		Cockerell was not the first man to think of the idea, but he was the first to overcome the technical problems of keeping the air cushion in place.
	www.netlondon.com /news/1999-22/FF4EAC600058F80D802.html (303 words)

	HOVERCRAFT
		In 1952 the British inventor Christopher Cockerell designed a vehicle based on his 'hovercraft principle'.
		Cockerell used simple experiments involving a vacuum cleaner motor and two cylindrical cans.
		It was found that the craft's lift was improved by the addition of a 'skirt' of flexible fabric or rubber around the hovering surface, to contain the air.
	www.solarnavigator.net /hovercraft.htm (1272 words)

	Cronaca: Cockerell cup to Fitzwilliam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cockerell cup is named after its last owner, the late Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft.
		The museum is a peculiarly appropriate home for the cup, because though Sir Christopher bought the vessel from a London dealer in the 1960s, his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was a former director of the Fitzwilliam, and himself a renowned collector.
		From the Guardian; a Christopher Cockerell obituary may be read here.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/003410.html (192 words)

	Christopher Cockerell
		Christopher Cockerell, the son of Sydney Cockerell, the famous typographer, was born on 4th June, 1910.
		In 1939 he turned his attentions to the war effort and was a member of the team who produced the first radio detection finder, that was installed in all British bombers.
		Christopher Cockerell, who was knighted in 1969, and elected Fellow of the Royal Society, died on 1st June, 1999.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SCcockerell.htm (331 words)

	World Bank estimates 200 million 'newly poor' Three-year-old girl watches mom's slaying Cockerell, the inventor of the ...
		Cockerell died peacefully in his sleep at the Southampton home, his youngest daughter Frances Airey was quoted by The Daily Telegraph as saying.
		The newspaper said that Cockerell had been ill for several months after a fall, although the cause of death was not immediately announced.
		Cockerell was scathing about successive governments' policies for developing and using new technology in Britain and in 1966 he resigned from the firm overseeing the development of the hovercraft industry in protest at plans to amalgamate all the companies involved in hovercraft production.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12715 (4081 words)

	BBV Hovercraft
		The word "hovercraft" was probably coined by a newspaper, or even by Christopher Cockerell himself, to try to capture the essence of the vehicle.
		He took the idea further by the skilful use of vectored air to make the whole vehicle hover, thereby removing the drag from any part of the hull which might have been in contact with the surface, be it land or water.
		At the Browndown hovercraft event in 1976, which took place on the 10th anniversary of the first Browndown event, Christopher Cockerell told me of the reluctance of his team to the idea of fitting "a ring of Mackintosh" around the SRN1 after its cross-Channel trip.
	www.bbvhovercraft.co.uk /history.html (2366 words)

	Christopher Cockerell and the development of the HOVERCRAFT - Design and Technology On The Web's guide to Inventions ...
		Christopher Cockerell and the development of the HOVERCRAFT - Design and Technology On The Web's guide to Inventions and Innovations, Inventors and Engineers
		Christopher Cockerell's main problem might be said to have been the material from which the 'skirt' was made - although in actual fact the skirt on the craft was added to later designs.
		Cockerell's idea was the result of experiments with food-tins and of his noting that pressures could be increased by restricting the channel down which the air was forced.
	www.design-technology.info /inventors/page11.htm (111 words)

	BBC - Norfolk Kids - Science A-Z: Hovercraft
		Sir Christopher Cockerell was one of the most amazing inventors of the 20th Century.
		Born in 1910 near Cambridge, Sir Christopher's interest in science was encouraged at Gresham's School at Holt in Norfolk.
		Hovercrafts are now used all over the world and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in north Norfolk has one of only two hovercrafts in the UK, for sea rescue.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/kids/science/az_hovercraft.shtml (294 words)

	SIR CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL INVENTOR OF THE HOVERCRAFT
		Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was a British engineer, inventor of the hovercraft.
		Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, in a house called "Wayside" in Cavendish Avenue, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
		Né en Grande-Bretagne en 1910, Christopher Cockerell, l’homme qui allait donner des ailes aux bateaux en inventant l’aéroglisseur, manifesta très tôt ses dons d’innovateur.
	www.solarnavigator.net /inventors/christopher_cockerell.htm (1457 words)

	1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The hover craft, invented by Christopher Cockerell, an English electronic engineer, in the 1950’s, but the invention was not built and ready for testing until May 28th, 1959.
		He invented it as a way to make boats go faster without using so much fuel, as the boats available used mass amounts of fuel to power their huge engines and propellers.
		After trying and trying again, he came up with a solution of putting a curtain of air around the hull of the ship, in the form of a ring shaped jet, to keep the boat afloat.
	www.freewebtown.com /railroadbaron/1950s/1951.htm (125 words)

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