!!!Rumpler, Edmund

Rumpler, Edmund, b. Vienna, Jan. 4, 1872, 
d. Neu Tollow (Germany), Sept. 7, 1940, constructor of automobiles and 
planes. 1890-1895 studied mechanical engineering at the University of 
Technology in Vienna, from 1897 constructor with German automobile 
manufacturers. 1906 set up his own engineering office in Berlin, from 
1908 also built planes. 1910 was granted the right to build a 
reproduction of the "Etrich-Taube", a low-flying motor plane, the 
improved version of which was called "R.-Taube". During World War I 
built military planes at the "R.-Werke AG" in Augsburg and in 1921 the 
first streamlined automobile, the "R.-Tropfenauto".



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