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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the physician and politician in Kansas, see <a href="John_H._Stringfellow" title="John H. Stringfellow">John H. Stringfellow</a>.</div>
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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">John Stringfellow</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">19th century tin-plate photograph</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1799<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Attercliffe" title="Attercliffe">Attercliffe</a>, <a href="Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>, <a href="England" title="England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">13 December 1883 (aged 84)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="Chard%2C_Somerset" title="Chard, Somerset">Chard, Somerset</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Aerial_Steam_Carriage" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerial Steam Carriage">Aerial Steam Carriage</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">
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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Hannah Ketch</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">
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</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="27 February 1827">1827</span>)<wbr></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4 daughters, 6 sons</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>John Stringfellow</b> (1799 – 13 December 1883) was a British early aeronautical inventor, known for his work on the <a href="Aerial_steam_carriage" title="Aerial steam carriage">aerial steam carriage</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="William_Samuel_Henson" title="William Samuel Henson">William Samuel Henson</a>.
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<p>Stringfellow was born in <a href="Attercliffe" title="Attercliffe">Attercliffe</a>, England to Martha [née Gillan] and William Stringfellow, stone mason. Initially apprenticed to the lace making trade in <a href="Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, c.1820 he relocated to <a href="Chard%2C_Somerset" title="Chard, Somerset">Chard</a>, <a href="Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> to work as an engineer of <a href="Bobbin" title="Bobbin">bobbins</a> and carriages for the <a href="Lace" title="Lace">lace</a> industry, becoming so successful that he started his own company. On 27 February 1827 he married Hannah Keetch.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had 10 children, including a son who died in infancy and a daughter, Laura, who had <a href="Epilepsy" title="Epilepsy">epilepsy</a> and died age 29.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Together with William Samuel Henson, he had ambitions of creating an international company, the Aerial Transit Company, with designs showing aeroplane travel to exotic locations like <a href="Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="China" title="China">China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initial designs were flawed, with Stringfellow's ideas centred on <a href="Monoplane" title="Monoplane">monoplane</a> and <a href="Triplane" title="Triplane">triplane</a> models and Henson's ideas centred on an underpowered <a href="Steam-powered" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam-powered">steam-powered</a> vehicle, however In 1848 Stringfellow achieved the first ever powered flight using an unmanned 10 ft <a href="Wingspan" title="Wingspan">wingspan</a> steam-powered monoplane, built in a disused lace factory in Chard, Somerset.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Employing two <a href="Contra-rotating" title="Contra-rotating">contra-rotating</a> <a href="Propellers" class="mw-redirect" title="Propellers">propellers</a> on the first attempt, made indoors, the machine flew ten feet before becoming destabilised, damaging the craft. The second attempt was more successful, the machine leaving a guide wire to fly freely, achieving some thirty yards of straight and level powered flight.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
A <a href="Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a> model of that first primitive aircraft stands in <a href="Fore_Street%2C_Chard" title="Fore Street, Chard">Fore Street</a> in Chard. The <a href="Chard_Museum" title="Chard Museum">town's museum</a> has a unique exhibition of flight before the advent of the <a href="Internal_combustion" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal combustion">internal combustion</a> engine and before the manned, powered flight made famous by the <a href="Wright_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wright Brothers">Wright Brothers</a>. Stringfellow also invented and patented compact <a href="Electric_batteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric batteries">electric batteries</a>, which were used in early <a href="Medical_treatment" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical treatment">medical treatment</a>. Stringfellow's work was featured in an exhibition in 1868 at <a href="The_Crystal_Palace" title="The Crystal Palace">The Crystal Palace</a> in <a href="London" title="London">London</a>.
</p><p>Stringfellow was also a member of the South West Photographic Society and gave lectures about his inventions with photographs as illustration and proof of his pioneering aviation work. A keen <a href="Photographer" title="Photographer">photographer</a> in his spare time, Stringfellow had begun learning the new art / science in the late 1850s, being among the first to produce a <a href="Wet-transfer_film_gate" title="Wet-transfer film gate">wet print</a> of an <a href="Image" title="Image">image</a> and quickly becoming proficient enough to advertise as a professional portrait photographer at his studio near the family home in Chard High Street. The <a href="Photographic_studio" title="Photographic studio">studios</a> in Chard and in <a href="Crewkerne" title="Crewkerne">Crewkerne</a> are where some of his flying vehicle machines were photographed. The 1871 census of England and Wales lists his occupation as "Machinist & Photographer".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>It is recorded that Stringfellow met Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Marconi at regular South West Engineering Institution and Royal Society events, enjoying great debates over the science and engineering principles of the day with his fellow engineers. In 1868 he was elected a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and used his prize money to build a larger workspace for continuing his experiments. However, at nearly 70 years, his sight was beginning to fail and he was unable to make further progress.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 1881 census status is "Retired Mechanician Inventor of Flying Machines".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>John Stringfellow died in 1883 at the age of 84 and was buried in Chard Cemetery, Somerset, where there is a commemorative family monument.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Stringfellow's first powered flight achievement was referenced in the 1965 film <i><a href="The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_(1965_film)" title="The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)">The Flight of the Phoenix</a></i>. The character Heinrich Dorfmann (<a href="Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger" title="Hardy Krüger">Hardy Krüger</a>), a <a href="Germans" title="Germans">German</a> aeroplane designer, explains that it was a <a href="Model_aeroplane" class="mw-redirect" title="Model aeroplane">model aeroplane</a> that made the first powered flight in 1851 and though his own experience with aeroplane design is with building models, the principles are the same. His design for an aeroplane to be built from the scraps of their crashed plane will fly them out of the desert to safety.
</p><p>Stringfellow and Henson are honoured by the <a href="Royal_Aeronautical_Society" title="Royal Aeronautical Society">Royal Aeronautical Society</a> with an annual lecture and dinner in Yeovil<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Aviation_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviation history">Aviation history</a></li>
<li><a href="Frederick_Brearey" title="Frederick Brearey">Frederick Brearey</a></li>
<li><a href="George_Cayley" title="George Cayley">George Cayley</a>, aviation pioneer</li>
<li><a href="John_Chapman_(engineer)" title="John Chapman (engineer)">John Chapman</a>, engineer</li></ul>
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<ul><li>Harald Penrose, <i>An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, The Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer</i> (Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing, Ltd., 1988), 183p., illus. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-85310-047-1</bdi></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1591057.stm">BBC: John Stringfellow</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/stringfellow.html">Hargrave: John Stringfellow</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080517072803/http://www.chardmuseum.co.uk/">Chard Museum</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flyingmachines.org/strng.html">Flying Machines: John Stringfellow</a></li></ul>
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