Perisor henri coanda biography

In the year 2006, in Perisor, was arranged by the city father a village museum.

Because of the support given by the Romanian Association for Propaganda and of Aerial Navigation History (ARPIA), the headquarters of Craiova, it was also possible to be placed an airplane IAR 93, in the courtyard of the museum, one of the first Romanian machines at whose execution the Romanian savant contributed. Another symbol of his existence, about which the inhabitants talk with much care, is a nut treet which was planted by Henri Coandă himself.

Here, there are two saloons dedicated to the memory of the great savant, where there are exhibited the materials associated with his childhood, which took place, partly, at Perișor. In front of the museum there was placed a bronze bust of Henri Coandă.

The museum presents in a room different cultural ethnographic goods.

Henri Coandă was born at Bucharest, on the 7^th of June 1886, being the second son of a numerous family.

His father was the general Constantin Coandă, former Mathematics professor at the National school of bridges and highroads from Bucharest.

His mother, Aida Danet, was the daughter of the French doctor, Gustave Danet, native from Bretagne.

Even from his childhood, the future engineer and physician was fascinated by the miracl

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