Jacques Theodore Saconney
Jacques-Théodore Saconney (1874 Torino, Italy – 1935 Dijon, France) was a Senior French Army General, an innovative scientific and an adventurous balloonist.
He has foreseen the future developments of the French civil and military air navigation. His legacy in strong: as an academic, he has provided interesting insights in mathematics and in the development of modern meteorology. As a military officer, he has been at the forefront of the early French military and civil aviation, and the development of military kites and a new discipline, the kite aerial photography.
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