Juan de la Cierva

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language.

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Who was born first?

• Juan de la Cierva and Buckminster Fuller were born the same year
• Juan de la Cierva and Igor Tamm were born the same year
• Juan de la Cierva and Paval Sukhi were born the same year
• Juan de la Cierva and Walter Dornberger were born the same year
• Juan de la Cierva was born 1 year after Pyotr Kapitsa

Timeline

1. Pyotr KapitsaJune 26, 1894 – April 8, 1984
2. Buckminster FullerJuly 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983
3. Igor TammJuly 8, 1895 – April 12, 1971
4. Juan de la Cierva (this page)September 21, 1895 – December 9, 1936
5. Paval SukhiJuly 10, 1895 – September 15, 1975
6. Walter DornbergerSeptember 6, 1895 – June 1980

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