- Aurel Persu
Aurel Perşu (1890-1977), was a
Romania nengineer , and among the first to applyaerodynamics principles toautomobiles . He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile has the shape of a falling water-drop.Perşu implemented his idea in 1922-1923 in
Berlin , building an automobile that could reach very high speeds for that time, and it could take curves at up to 60 km/h. It was the first car to have the wheels inside its aerodynamic line, which we take for granted today. The car ran for 160,000 km and can be seen since 1961 in the "Dimitrie Leonida" Technical Museum [http://www.cimec.ro/muzee/mteh/mteh_eng.htm] inBucharest . The car is still working today.External links
* [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US1648505&F=0 "Streamline Power Vehicle" United States Patent US1648505]
* [http://www.osim.ro/web/ca/persu.htm Perşu at the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks] (In Romanian)
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