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Cockerell

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Cockerell
Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910--99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft


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HALF a century has passed since Christopher Cockerell gave the world a new mode of transport - the hovercraft.
It was designed by Sir Charles Robert Cockerell and erected in 1855, with some later modifications by Alfred Stevenson.
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