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Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylized as Alberto Santos=Dumont, [1] (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, [2] [3] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aviation pioneer who captured the imagination of Europe and the United States with his airship flights and made the first significant flight of a powered airplane in Europe with his No. 14-bis.
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aviation pioneer, deemed the Father of Aviation by his countrymen. Alberto Santos Dumont was born July 20, 1873, in the village of Cabangu, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Santos-Dumont Bought A Peugeot
- Santos-Dumont Built The Brésil
- Santos-Dumont Won The Deutsch de La Meurthe Prize
- Santos-Dumont Helped Create The Wristwatch
- Santos-Dumont Gave Up Flying in 1910
- Santos Dumont Returned to Brazil in 1932
After being homeschooled by private tutors Santos-Dumont attended the Colégio Morton in São Paulo and the Escola de Minas in Minas Gerais. Santos-Dumont's father was partially paralyzed after falling off a horse in 1891 and decided to sell the plantation and move the family to France, where he hoped he would find treatment for his condition. Now li...
After traveling back and forth between Brazil and Europe for several years, once Santos-Dumont's father passed away in 1892, he decided to stay on in Paris and study physics. Still traveling to Brazil for holidays, on one return journey to France, Santos-Dumont bought a book about Salomon Andrée's attempt to fly to the North Pole by balloon. Callin...
His first two attempts at building a dirigible failed, but he was successful with his third and went on to win the 100,000 francs Deutsch de la Meurthe prize for flying from Parc Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Parisand back in less than 30 minutes. Winning the prize which Santos-Dumont promised to give to charity made the Brazilian an internati...
Now back in Paris, Santos-Dumont complained to his friend Louis Cartier that he had difficulty checking his pocket watch while up in the air. The aftermath of this created the world's first wristwatch that allowed the Brazilian to check the time while still having both hands on the controls. By 1905 Santos-Dumont's attention was fixed on heavier th...
On January 4, 1910, Santos-Dumont made his final flight as a pilot when a bracing wire snapped at an altitude of 25 meters (80 feet). This caused one of the plane's wings to collapse and left Santos-Dumont bruised, but other than that, unhurt. Two months later, he announced his retirement from aviation and barely ever left his house. This led to ru...
During the 1920s, he spent time in and out of French and Swiss sanatoriums with the occasional trip to his native Brazil. When arriving on the luxury liner Cap Arcona in 1928, a dozen Brazilian scientific community members planned to greet him by arriving in a seaplane. Unfortunately for them, it was a wrong decision as the plane crashed, killing a...
Santos Dumont (formerly known as Palmira) is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population (2020) is estimated to be 46,421 and the total area of the municipality is 639.1 km 2 (246.8 sq mi).
Alberto Santos-Dumont ( b. 20 July 1873; d. 23 July 1932), pioneer aviator, inventor, and engineer. Known internationally as the "father of aviation," Santos-Dumont was born on his family's coffee plantation in Palmira (now Santos Dumont), Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Jan 19, 2022 · After constructing his own, very small balloon, the Brazil, which he flew in 1898, Santos-Dumont turned his attention to powered airships, and over the next decade, 11 dirigibles emerged from his shop. In 1901, Santos-Dumont claimed an aviation prize for flying a dirigible around the Eiffel Tower.
