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Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, he dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. He designed, built, and flew…
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science · Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873–1932) · aircraft pilot · balloonist · scientist · inventor · also Alberto Santos-Dumont, Alberto Santos Dumont, Santos-Dumont
Born 20 July 1873 · Died 23 July 1932 · Q313211
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2026· 2 entries
“My God! My God! Is there no way to avoid the bloodshed of brothers? Why did I make this invention which, instead of contributing to the love between men, turns into a cursed weapon of war? I am horrified by these airplanes that are constantly passing over Santos”
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2015· 1 entry
Author Arthur Japin published the historical novel De gevleugelde (O Homem com Asas, in Brazil), about the aviator's life and death, and the extraction of his heart
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2006).
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1996· 1 entry
“Mais Pesado que o Ar – Santos Dumont”
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1976· 1 entry
The International Astronomical Union gave Santos-Dumont's name to a lunar crater (27
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1973· 1 entry
Released a series of stamps to celebrate Santos-Dumont's centenary
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1956· 1 entry
The Brazilian Post Office released a series of stamps commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the first flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft
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1932· 3 entries
Died 1932-07-23.
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“O que eu vi, o que nós veremos”
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“Estou disposto a oferecer, em concurso, um prêmio de 10 mil francos para o melhor trabalho sobre a interdição das máquinas aéreas como arma de combate e de bombardeio.”
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1931· 2 entries
By a doctor at the Orthez sanatorium to a friend of Santos-Dumont describes him as 'suffering from anxious melancholy with delusions of self-blame, from imaginary guilt, and awaiting punishment', also identified as neura
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Was treated in sanatoriums in Biarritz, and Orthez, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, where he attempted suicide by overdosing on medication
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1924· 1 entry
Tarsila do Amaral painted "Carnaval em Madureira", which showed the replica of the Eiffel Tower and the airship built in Madureira for the Carnaval celebrations of that year, alongside Afro-Brazilians attending the event
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1922· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Merit (1922).
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Decorated Anésia Pinheiro Machado, who, during the commemorations of the centenary of Brazil's independence, made the trip from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo in an aeroplane
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1920· 2 entries
Began an international campaign against the warlike use of aircraft, but without success
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Santos-Dumont had a tomb erected for his parents and himself in the São João Batista Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro
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1919· 1 entry
Got the United States Minister in Brazil to contact the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D
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1918· 2 entries
Wrote his second work, O que eu vi, o que nós veremos in this house
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Santos-Dumont bought a small plot of land on the side of a hill in Petrópolis in the Serra Fluminense mountains, and built a small house there filled with mechanical devices, including an alcohol-heated shower of his own
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1916· 1 entry
Was the Honorary President of the 1st Pan-American Aronautics Conference in Chile, which aimed to create an Aeronautical Federation with all the Americas, where, while representing the Aeroclub of America, he advocate
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1915· 1 entry
His health worsened and he decided to return to Brazil
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1913· 1 entry
But there is no evidence that he ever flew it
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1910· 2 entries
Erected on the Bagatelle Gamefield, where he had flown with the Oiseau de Proie, and the second, in 1913, in Saint-Cloud, to commemorate the flight of airship No
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Predating the use of the aeroplane in the war, which, according to Cheniaux, would indicate that his feeling of guilt was a symptom rather than the cause
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1908· 1 entry
When the Wright brothers went public, and – according to Mattos – used European technology and his colleagues were already being rewarded, he already seemed to have moved away from the events
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1907· 1 entry
Competed for the Deutsch-Archdeacon award, crossing 200 meters at a height of 6 meters, but abandoning before the required 1000 meters due to a breakdown in the aircraft
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1906· 2 entries
"so that this commemoration will always have a worthy civic, sporting, and cultural celebration, especially in schools, emphasizing the initiative of the remarkable Brazilian Santos-Dumont"
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Santos-Dumont built a hybrid machine, the 14-bis or Oiseau de Proie, consolidating his studies of what had been done in aviation until then, without having had experience with gliders
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1904· 2 entries
Renowned French jeweller Louis Cartier debuted the Santos-Dumont, a watch designed for the aviator himself
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Was nominated as a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France, and published the work Dans L'Air, whose translation into Portuguese, Os Meus Balões (My Balloons), was published in Brazil in 1938
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1903· 1 entry
A group of climbers put up a banner on Sugarloaf Mountain, beside Guanabara Bay, greeting the aviator on his return by ship from Europe
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1902· 2 entries
The poet Eduardo das Neves composed the song "A Conquista do Ar" in honour of Santos-Dumont's achievements, described by Thomas Skidmore as 'a conspicuous example of "ufanism" during the [Brazilian] belle époque', while
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And that the aviator already demonstrated at the end of his life a number of epidemiological risk factors for suicide
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1901· 1 entry
When he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No
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1899· 1 entry
Santos-Dumont built a new aircraft, No
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1897· 1 entry
Independent and heir to an immense fortune which he invested in the development of his projects, applied in the stock market, allowing him to work without being accountable to any investor
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1894· 1 entry
Santos-Dumont travelled to the United States, visiting New York, Chicago, and Boston
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1893· 1 entry
By Australian researcher Lawrence Hargrave, which offered good support and rigidity
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1891· 2 entries
Became interested in mechanics, especially the internal combustion engine
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When he was 18, Santos-Dumont visited Europe
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1888· 1 entry
When the aeronaut Stanley Spencer ascended in a spherical balloon and parachuted down
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1879· 1 entry
The Dumonts sold their farm in Valença, Rio de Janeiro, and settled in Sítio do Cascavel, in Ribeirão Preto, where they bought the Arindeúva Farm, of José Bento Junqueira, producing 1200 bushels of coffee
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1873· 2 entries
Born 1873-07-20.
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The family moved to the small town of Cabangu, in the municipality of João Aires, for Henrique Dumont to work on the construction of the D
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