Born in Madrid, March 31 1929. Studying secondary education at the College of areneros (Jesuits) and graduated with Honors. Studies at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Madrid.
In 1947 he invented a recorder Arrivals Boxing has been installed with great success at the Hippodrome de la Zarzuela in Madrid. Sold the patent to a major Swiss watchmaking house, which operates to this day. System is used and has been repeatedly projected his pictures on TV in recent Olympic Games in Athens.
In 1954 he moved to Cuba, where he designs and builds the C-54 helicopter in partnership with the Company Cubana de Aviación. Events in Cuba in 1959 identified his emigration to the United States, where he founded in Philadelphia, PA., Dynasciences Corporation Aeronautical Engineers Doctors Drs Leonard Goland and Avraham Perlmutter. Collaborates with them in the formulation and preparation of the "Handbook for Helicopter Stability and Control" for the Department of Defense.
In Dynasciences invents and directs the manufacture of many inertial systems. Electro-optical and optical including the Dynalens stabilizer for cameras and other optical systems installed in helicopters or other aircraft. In 1970 Dynalens, used last year in numerous films and documentaries, wins Oscar for "The best scientific contribution to the Film of the Year 1969" of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, California, becoming the first citizen Spanish OSCAR to receive a prize of any kind. The Dynalens is used today by many film and television cameras both professional and consumer level.
Many other inventions of Juan de la Cierva, some of a very large military value, dating from that era, many of them were highly classified by the Department of Defense of the United States and therefore not patentable in the U.S. Patent Office . In 1969 he moved to Spain and invented and developed several new systems, such as a gaming totaliser for the Hippodrome de la Zarzuela in Madrid. It was the world's first device of its kind implemented by a network of microprocessors, newly invented at Intel Corporation. Several other systems of the same type were designed and built in Spain for a number of North American racetracks.
In 1979 returned to the United States where he continued his research for the Department of Defense and major U.S. companies like IBM, EDS and others. One such project was the small autogiro C-95 (rotor diameter of 2.5 meters) without pilot equipped with a GPS navigation system and a system of control "fly-by-wire" for observation of beaches by day or night immediately before a landing of marines.
In 1997 returned to Spain where he lives since then. In 2004 he invented the Heligiro. |
