Christopher Cockerell
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Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
Memorial to Cockerell at Hythe, Hampshire
Cockerell in 1976
Cockerell's hovercraft model from 1955 in the Science Museum, London
Cockerell's workshop reassembled at Lowestoft Maritime Museum
Sydney Cockerell
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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was an English museum curator and collector. From 1908 to 1937, he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. He was knighted in 1934.
Christopher Cockerell
…June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. His mother was the illustrator and designer Florence…
Cockerell in 1934