Alexandru Ciurcu
✓ Source-basedfallingRomanian scientist (1854-1922)
JournalistsLived 1854 to 1922 · aged 68
Fame38.1
Momentum1.4
Languages7
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Alexandru N. Ciurcu was a Romanian inventor and publisher, known for his invention with the French journalist Just Buisson of a reaction engine. It used rocket propulsion and was briefly used to power a boat, demonstrated on 13 August 1886. The two men envisioned that such motors would later be used for air travel.
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Journalists born in the 1850s 6
About this person
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1854 to 1922 · aged 68
Written about in
7 languages
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