Lilienthal


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Lilienthal

(German ˈliːliəntaːl)
n
(Biography) Otto (ˈɔto). 1848–96, German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of glider design
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We men, with our bicycles and road-skates, our Lilienthal soaring-machines, our guns and sticks and so forth, are just in the beginning of the evolution that the Martians have worked out.
A replica of a glider designed by German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal is also on display.
Lilienthal, former head of both the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission, did an on-the-spot article for Collier's magazine.
emotive, a healthcare communications agency, has named Natalie Lilienthal as its new senior account director, it was reported yesterday.
When he was thirteen, he wrote to his best friend, David Lilienthal, "I feel so lonesome for an intimate friend," signing off with a daring bid for intimacy jokingly covered by an assertion of masculine camaraderie, "with barrels of love and ki--handshakes." (1)
In 1951 David Lilienthal, formerly the chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and of the U.S.
It shipped in July and started hitting shelves in November: Sales shot up 12% over the previous vintage, according to Christine Lilienthal, director of marketing for Cline and its sister winery, Jacuzzi.
LILIENTHAL: I grew up in the Boston area, went to the University of California-Berkeley in the 60s for undergrad, and then Boston College Law.
Rachael Lilienthal, 37, escaped the 9ft, 22-stone beast after canoeists hit it with a paddle as it bit into her torso.
It was after David Lilienthal's suggestions that the World Bank decided to offer the negotiation to resolve the dispute between the two countries.
In which area of transport was Otto Lilienthal a famous pioneer?
As Thompson notes, "When the Wright brothers asked the Smithsonian for all available information on the history of flight in 1899, they opened a history that had begun with Da Vinci's scribbling, and continued all the way to the 19th-century gliders of Otto Lilienthal: The bottom line on all this is that invention really is a collaborative thing, a group effort, over time, as are so many other processes in the world.