Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
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Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 – 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He invented the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.
The invention is described in the 1931 U.S. patent 1,835,018.
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- academie-sciences.fr Archived 2007-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- US patent 1,835,018