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Louis Blériot
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French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
Louis Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer who lived from 1872 to 1936. He is historically significant as a pioneering figure in early aviation, though the specific details of his major accomplishments are not provided in the available context.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Cambrai
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Educated at
- Collège Sainte-Barbe
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- aerospace engineering
- Image
- Louis Bleriot.jpg
- Significant event
- Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne
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- Commons category
- Louis Blériot
- date of birth
- 1872-07-01
- date of death
- 1936-08-01
- Commons gallery
- Louis Blériot
- name in native language
- Louis Blériot
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- student
- Assen Jordanoff
- place of burial
- Cimetière des Gonards
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Encyclopedic overview
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (/ˈblɛrioʊ/ BLERR-ee-oh, also US: /ˈbleɪrioʊ, ˌbleɪriˈoʊ, blɛərˈjoʊ/ BLAY-ree-oh, -OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ʃaʁl ʒozɛf bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first aeroplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 (worth £152,113 in 2025) offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. He was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
Early years
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