Anthony Fokker made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Anthony Fokker as Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (1890-1939).
Anthony Fokker was born at Blitar in 1890. His recorded nationality is the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives his occupations as aerospace engineer, engineer and entrepreneur.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - National Aviation Hall of Fame (1980) and Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey.
Working from the Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Anthony Fokker died in 1939 at the age of 49. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- National Aviation Hall of Fame — 1980
- Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
- Worked as aerospace engineer, engineer and entrepreneur
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