Edmund Rumpler
Edmund Rumpler · Technology & Engineering
Automobile and aircraft designer whose Tropfenwagen (1921) brought aircraft aerodynamics to the car.
4 January 1872, Vienna, Austria — 7 September 1940, Germany
Berlin, Germany
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An Austrian engineer in Berlin, Edmund Rumpler built aircraft — his Taube was the icon of early German aviation — then turned the lessons of the sky back onto the road. His Tropfenwagen ('drop car'), the sensation of the 1921 Berlin Auto Show, was shaped like a falling drop of water decades before 'aerodynamics' entered the showroom, with the engine mid-mounted ahead of the rear axle like a modern racing car. Because Rumpler was Jewish, Hitler's rise ended his career: he was imprisoned in 1933 and, though soon released, never worked again. He died in 1940.
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Automobile and aircraft designer whose Tropfenwagen (1921) brought aircraft aerodynamics to the car.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Rumpler
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