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'''William Henry Fauber''' was a manufacturer and aero inventor patenting from 95 Boulevard de la Seine, Nanterre, France.
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'''William Henry Harrison Fauber''' was an American manufacturer and aero inventor who lived in France from 1905–1911. In his early career he made bicycles, then automobiles, getting into aeronautics after arriving in France.
  
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He'd been born in Indiana, went into business in Chicago making bicycle equipment, then lived in France, then lived in New York City, and died in Brooklyn.
  
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An evolving airplane design might be traceable in the course of his international patents from 1906–1910.
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An evolving airplane design might be traceable in the course of his international patents from 1906–1910. Some of his patents were filed from 95 Boulevard de la Seine, Nanterre, France.
  
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He also patented a "hydroplane boat", not an aircraft but a boat designed to lift up somewhat while traveling speedily through the water.
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He also patented a [[hydroplane]] boat, not an aircraft but a boat designed to lift up somewhat while traveling speedily through the water.
  
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(See "[https://books.google.com/books?id=WGMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA363 American has an aero inventor in France]", which also makes a big deal out of Fauber securing a patent from the strict Germans.)<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=WGMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA363America has an aero inventor in France]", ''The Automobile'', March 12, 1908, p. 363.</ref>
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Fauber testified to congress in 1919 regarding the government's expenditures on airplanes and airplane patents specifically. (See [[1917 Army Aviation Bill]].) Fauber observed that the government had simply appropriated his patents during wartime; but had paid the [[Manufacturers' Aircraft Association]] $5,000,000 to use Wright-Martin and Curtiss patents.<ref>''War Expenditures'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gnIyJ4JepV4C&pg=PA399 399].</ref> He charged that the law bolstered "an aircraft trust to substantially control the aircraft business of the country" (420). Of the MAA he said, "...it appears to me that two companies have substantially arranged to control the business, merely admitting a few other companies to make the association look like an association that is free to any manufacturers" (423).
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In 1925 Fauber gave further testimony to congress regarding the airplane cross-licensing arrangement made during wartime.<ref>''Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=j1lAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1170 1170].</ref> Regarding his entry into aeronautics he said:
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<blockquote>In 1905 I quit business, intending to take a vacation, and while in Europe—as a matter of fact I went to Europe to sell some patents. After completing the sale of those patents I was in Paris and happened to see a balloon contest and, having been interested in aviation I decided to stay in France for a time, became France was at the time the foremost country in Aviation. <br>
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I joined the [[Aero Club de France]], and spent five years there following aviation, doing some experimental work in aviation, but more particularly in developing the hydroplane. And the hydroplane is a very important part of aviation, because a hydroairplane is only an airplane mounted on a hydroplane.</blockquote>
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He died in 1928, aged 66, still working on inventions:<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1928/07/30/archives/william-h-fauber-inventor-in-the-hydroplane-field-dies-in-his-66th.html NY Times obituary], 30 July 1928</ref>
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:William H. Fauber, an inventor who held several basic patents for hydroplanes, died yesterday at his home, 55 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, after an illness of two weeks. He is survived by a widow and by two sisters who live in Chicago. Mr. Fauber formerly for many years was a manufacturer of articles for his bicycle industry, having plants in Chicago and Elgin, Ill. Since 1905 he had devoted his inventive talents to aviation problems, in particular those of the hydroplane. He was a native of Indiana. He recently returned from a visit to Washington in connection with a new patent.
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A legal case about his patents was decided in 1941: [https://casetext.com/case/fauber-v-united-states-2]  It was brought by Hazel L. Fauber, possibly his widow.  The judgement was that two of Fauber's patents had been infringed upon and 2 million dollars would be awarded to her or his estate.  His name in the legal case is sometimes shown as William Henry Harrison Fauber or William Harrison Fauber.
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Latest revision as of 11:21, 7 January 2024

William Henry Harrison Fauber was an American manufacturer and aero inventor who lived in France from 1905–1911. In his early career he made bicycles, then automobiles, getting into aeronautics after arriving in France.

He'd been born in Indiana, went into business in Chicago making bicycle equipment, then lived in France, then lived in New York City, and died in Brooklyn.

An evolving airplane design might be traceable in the course of his international patents from 1906–1910. Some of his patents were filed from 95 Boulevard de la Seine, Nanterre, France.

He also patented a hydroplane boat, not an aircraft but a boat designed to lift up somewhat while traveling speedily through the water.

(See "American has an aero inventor in France", which also makes a big deal out of Fauber securing a patent from the strict Germans.)[1]

Fauber testified to congress in 1919 regarding the government's expenditures on airplanes and airplane patents specifically. (See 1917 Army Aviation Bill.) Fauber observed that the government had simply appropriated his patents during wartime; but had paid the Manufacturers' Aircraft Association $5,000,000 to use Wright-Martin and Curtiss patents.[2] He charged that the law bolstered "an aircraft trust to substantially control the aircraft business of the country" (420). Of the MAA he said, "...it appears to me that two companies have substantially arranged to control the business, merely admitting a few other companies to make the association look like an association that is free to any manufacturers" (423).

In 1925 Fauber gave further testimony to congress regarding the airplane cross-licensing arrangement made during wartime.[3] Regarding his entry into aeronautics he said:

In 1905 I quit business, intending to take a vacation, and while in Europe—as a matter of fact I went to Europe to sell some patents. After completing the sale of those patents I was in Paris and happened to see a balloon contest and, having been interested in aviation I decided to stay in France for a time, became France was at the time the foremost country in Aviation.
I joined the Aero Club de France, and spent five years there following aviation, doing some experimental work in aviation, but more particularly in developing the hydroplane. And the hydroplane is a very important part of aviation, because a hydroairplane is only an airplane mounted on a hydroplane.

He died in 1928, aged 66, still working on inventions:[4]

William H. Fauber, an inventor who held several basic patents for hydroplanes, died yesterday at his home, 55 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, after an illness of two weeks. He is survived by a widow and by two sisters who live in Chicago. Mr. Fauber formerly for many years was a manufacturer of articles for his bicycle industry, having plants in Chicago and Elgin, Ill. Since 1905 he had devoted his inventive talents to aviation problems, in particular those of the hydroplane. He was a native of Indiana. He recently returned from a visit to Washington in connection with a new patent.

A legal case about his patents was decided in 1941: [1] It was brought by Hazel L. Fauber, possibly his widow. The judgement was that two of Fauber's patents had been infringed upon and 2 million dollars would be awarded to her or his estate. His name in the legal case is sometimes shown as William Henry Harrison Fauber or William Harrison Fauber.


This person had 0 publications and 12 patents in this database.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is William Henry Fauber or William-Henri Fauber

References

  1. ↑ "has an aero inventor in France", The Automobile, March 12, 1908, p. 363.
  2. ↑ War Expenditures, p. 399.
  3. ↑ Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services, p. 1170.
  4. ↑ NY Times obituary, 30 July 1928


Names William Henry Fauber; William Henri Fauber; William-Henri Fauber; William Henry Harrison Fauber
Countries US, FR
Locations Indiana, Chicago, Nanterre, France, Brooklyn, New York
Occupations manufacturer
Tech areas Drachenflieger, Airplane, Marine, Hydroplane, Design
Accreditations
Affiliations Aéro-Club de France, Fauber Manufacturing Company
Family name
Birth date circa 1862
Death date 1928-07-29
Wikidata id
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