Frank Whittle made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Frank Whittle as British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996).
Frank Whittle was born at Coventry in 1907. His recorded nationality is the United Kingdom. He was educated at Peterhouse and Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Frank Whittle is described as military flight engineer, aircraft pilot and inventor.
His affiliations include Royal Air Force.
Frank Whittle is associated first and foremost with co-creating the turbojet engine. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are mechanical engineering.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1948).
Working from the United Kingdom shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1996, at 89. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire — 1948
- Affiliated with Royal Air Force
- Educated at Peterhouse and Royal Air Force College Cranwell
- Worked as military flight engineer, aircraft pilot and inventor
