Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 - June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. Christopher Cockerell was educated at Gresham's School, Holt. He then entered Cambridge University, England, as an undergraduate member of Peterhouse, … Wikipedia
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Sir Christopher Cockerell , the engineer who died on 1 June, 1999 aged 88, was involved in many important engineering discoveries before his most well-known invention, the Hovercraft. Sir Christopher is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of Hovercraft an www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/cockerell/2561566
A diagram which shows the basic principle behind Christopher Cockerell 's original experiment. ... Christopher Cockerell was initially testing out the idea that it was possible to produce a cushion of air between the bottom of the tins and the surface www.hythe-hants.org.uk/Local_Information/Sir-Christopher-...
Christopher Sydney Cockerell was born in 1910 at Cherry Hinton near Cambridge, the son of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell , sometime private secretary to Sir William Morris and from 1908 to 1937 Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Cockerells www.rotaski.co.uk/england.htm
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 - June 1, 1999) was a British engineer, inventor of the hovercraft . Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, in a house called "Wayside" in Cavendish Avenue, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell , was cu www.solarnavigator.net/inventors/christopher_cockerell.htm
Sir Christopher Cockerell passed away peacefully on the morning of 1st June 1999, three days before his 89th Birthday, while in a nursing home after a short spell in hospital. Ironically this occurred at the close of the Museum's Hovershow '99, to which www.hovercraft-museum.org/cockerell.html
