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Article: Sir Thomas Sopwith
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 2, 1989
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SIR THOMAS Sopwith's name was known to Americans primarily
because he was the designer of a famous World War I fighter plane,
the Sopwith Camel, whose fame has been kept alive in this country by
the antics of a comic-strip beagle named Snoopy ("Curse you, Red
Baron"). Sir Thomas died last week in London, having lived an entire
century (plus one year) during which the world was transformed by
people like him-engineers, tinkerers, inventors, mechanics,
scientists.
His century began in the same decade as the opening of the
Brooklyn Bridge-an astounding engineering feat whose completion, like
Sir Thomas' accomplishments, was testimony to the ingenuity, will and
daring of one man (Washington ...