Euro News: Dal dirigibile di Umberto Nobile ai satelliti: l’Artico, quando l’Italia osava esplorare
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Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer.
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politics · Italian explorer and engineer · military flight engineer · airship pilot · polar explorer · politician · aircraft pilot · also Umberto Nobile, Nobile
Born 21 January 1885 · Died 30 July 1978 · Q291200
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2025· 1 entry
Rai News: Umberto Nobile, l'uomo del Polo Nord. A 140 anni dalla nascita il libro verità di Grilletto e Cuomo
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1978· 1 entry
Died 1978-07-30.
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1966).
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1960· 2 entries
About the Norge and Roma, with transcript)
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About the 1926 Norge Alaska trip, with transcript)
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1959· 1 entry
Remarried to Gertrude Stolp, a German woman whom he had met in Spain in 1943 and who later became chief librarian at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome
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1948· 1 entry
Nobile returned to teaching at the University of Naples, where he studied and taught aeronautical and astronautical subjects
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1945· 1 entry
The Italian air force cleared Nobile of all charges related to the Italia crash, and not only reinstated him at his former rank as major general, but promoted him to lieutenant general and awarded him back pay dating to
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1939· 1 entry
To teach at Lewis University (at the time called Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics due to its aviation-focused curriculum) in Romeoville and in Chicago
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1932· 1 entry
And lived there for nearly five years to work on the Soviet semi-rigid airship program
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1928· 1 entry
Won Congressional Gold Medal (1928).
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Military Order of Savoy (1926).
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1923· 1 entry
Nobile began the design of a new airship, the N-1, which was built for the United States, Spain, Argentina and Japan
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1918· 1 entry
Designed the first Italian-made parachute
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1911· 1 entry
His interests turned to the field of aeronautical engineering and he enrolled into a course offered by the Italian Army's Engineers Corps
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1908· 1 entry
With a degree in industrial engineering, Nobile was hired by the Italian state railways
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-01-21.
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