| LC control no. | n 79063636 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932 |
| Variant(s) | Dumont, Alberto Santos-, 1873-1932 Santos Dumont, 1873-1932 Dumont, Santos, 1873-1932 |
| Associated place | Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1873-07-20 |
| Death date | 1932-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Cabangu (Brazil) |
| Place of death | Guarujá (São Paulo, Brazil) |
| Affiliation | Colégio Culto à Ciência (Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil) |
| Profession or occupation | Aviator Inventor Engineer |
| Found in | Thomé, N. A aviação militar no Contestado, 1985: p. 7, etc. (Santos Dumont) Smithsonian education, highlights in aviation, via WWW, Mar. 20, 2012 (studied in Paris, where he devoted his time to the study of chemistry, physics, astronomy and mechanics; pioneer in steered ballon travel, and in heavier-than-air vehicles; began attempting flight in an airplane in 1906, solving the problem of making a heavier-than-air machine take off by its own means) <http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/graphic/aviation/alberto.html> Encyclopaedia Britannica website, June 17, 2020: (Alberto Santos-Dumont; born July 20, 1873, Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas Gerais, Brazil; died July 23, 1932 in Guarujá, São Paulo; 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; went to Paris, France to study engineering) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberto-Santos-Dumont> |
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