Edward Purkis Frost

Background

FROST, Edward Purkis was born in 1842. Son of late Edward Frost, Justice of the Peace.

Education

Blackheatli, Brentwood, and BishopStortford.

Career

He built ornithopters, and became president of the Aeronautical Society. East.P. Frost lived at West Wratting Hall in Cambridgeshire and became a Justice of the Peace. Frost began studying flight in 1868 and built a large steam-powered flying machine with both fixed and flapping wings from 1870 to 1877.

Frost had intended to have a 20-25 hp steam engine but the actual engine with 5 hp was not powerful enough to lift the ornithopter from the ground.

The experiment cost Frost £1000. In collaboration with several colleagues he started another large similar craft in 1902 with an internal combustion engine.

lieutenant lifted from the ground in 1904. A wing from this craft is displayed in London"s Science Museum.

Works

• book

  • Safeguards for peace: a scheme of state insurance against war

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • Safeguards for Peace a Scheme of State Insurance Against War

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Safeguards for peace: a scheme of state insurance against war 1905 Hardcover

    (Lang:- eng, Pages 188. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of...)

  • { SAFEGUARDS FOR PEACE A SCHEME OF STATE INSURANCE AGAINST WAR - LARGE PRINT } by Frost, Edward P (AUTHOR) Aug-03-2011 Paperback

Membership

Frost had been a member of the Aeronautical Society since 1875 and became its president from 1908 to 1911.

• Club: Constitutional.

Interests

• Shooting, fishing, natural history, science, art, and music

Connections

Father:

Edward Frost