"Mr. Lanchester seems to be the first man who has considered and mastered the fact and theory of every phase of the subject before sitting down to write."
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"The Morning Post," October 27th, 1908, reviewing one of his books on aeronautics.
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Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946) was a British polymath, who also published poetry under the pseudonym Paul Netherton-Herries.
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