Louis Pierre Mouillard

Louis Pierre -Marie Mouillard ( born September 30, 1834 in Lyon, † September 20, 1897 in Cairo ) was a French engineer of the 19th century and a pioneer of aircraft. His partially derived from the study of bird flight in Alexandria theses were later adopted by the Wright brothers.

He is the author of numerous essays, including the most famous, "The kingdom of the air" ( L'empire de l'air ), in which he first described glider with fixed wing. The 1881 book was published in France in a few years to become a world-renowned classic. In this work he led, inter alia, the principle of " wing warping ", a forerunner of the aileron control, and the idea of an engine aircraft ( aéroplane à moteur ) from. The English translation was published in 1893 by the Smithsonian Institution under the title "The Empire Of The Air".

Mouillard experimented with hang-gliders from 1856, although his own glider failed, he quickly realized the importance of gliding for the future of aviation -. A view later Otto Lilienthal informed.