Aurel Persu [SEP] place of death
car") of Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler. Considering the diminished distance between the rear wheels, he gave up the differential system for the transmission of the engine torque. This meant that the car could safely negotiate curves at up to 60 km/h. Persu's design received German patent number 402683 in 1924 and US patent 1648505 in 1927.
Technical museum.
The original automobile ran for 120,000 km. Aurel Persu donated it fully functional in 1961 to the Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum in Bucharest. It has
Aurel Persu
Aurel Persu (26 December 1890 – 5 May 1977) was a Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer, the first to place the wheels inside the body of the car as part of his attempt to reach the perfect aerodynamic shape for automobiles. He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile must have the shape of a falling water drop.
Patented aerodynamic design.
Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low