Christopher Cockerell

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Christopher Cockerell was a British engineer and inventor best known for creating the hovercraft.

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Christopher Cockerell canonical 5
Sir Christopher Cockerell 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British person
engineer
human
inventor
awardReceived Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Howard N. Potts Medal
causeOfDeath Parkinson's disease
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1910-06-04
dateOfDeath 1999-06-01
developed SR.N1 hovercraft prototype
educatedAt Gresham's School
Peterhouse, Cambridge
employer Guglielmo Marconi
surface form: Marconi

American Marconi Company
surface form: Marconi Company
familyName Cockerell
fieldOfWork aeronautics
mechanical engineering
givenName Christopher
hasFather Sydney Cockerell
hasMother Florence Kingsford Cockerell
hasPatentOn air-cushion vehicle
honorificTitle Sir
influenced development of commercial hovercraft transport
knownFor invention of the hovercraft
languageSpoken English
militaryService Royal Air Force
notableIdea use of peripheral jets to contain an air cushion
notableWork hovercraft
occupation engineer
inventor
placeOfBirth Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge

Cambridgeshire, England
surface form: Cambridgeshire

England
placeOfDeath England
Hampshire
Hythe
positionHeld Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
surface form: Fellow of the Royal Society
residence Norfolk
Somerset
servedIn World War II
surface form: Second World War
sexOrGender male
spouse Margaret Elinor Belsham
workLocation East Anglia
Isle of Wight

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Peterhouse, Cambridge hasNotableAlumnus Christopher Cockerell
Gresham's School hasNotableAlumnus Christopher Cockerell
this entity surface form: Sir Christopher Cockerell
Cockerell hasNotableBearer Christopher Cockerell
Cockerell inventor Christopher Cockerell
subject surface form: hovercraft
SR.N1 hovercraft prototype designer Christopher Cockerell
subject surface form: SR.N1
Margaret Elinor Belsham spouse Christopher Cockerell