Félix du Temple de la Croix, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Félix du Temple de la Croix

French inventor

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1823

Place of Birth: Lorris, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1890

Profession: politician, military officer, aircraft pilot

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Félix du Temple de la Croix (18 July 1823 – 3 November 1890) (usually simply called Félix du Temple) was a French naval officer and an inventor, born into an ancient Norman family.
He developed some of the first flying machines and is credited with the first successful flight of a powered aircraft of any sort, a powered model plane, in 1857.
and is sometimes credited with the first manned powered flight in history aboard his Monoplane in 1874.
He was a contemporary of Jean-Marie Le Bris.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat