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Coanda

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[kaw-ahn-da] / kɔ ɑ̃ˈda /

noun

  1. Henri Marie 1885–1972, Romanian engineer and inventor.


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If you’re unfamiliar with the original Airwrap, it’s a hair curler that relies on something called the Coanda effect instead of heat.

From The Verge • Mar. 18, 2022

There’s a new Coanda smoothing dryer, which seems to bring the Dyson Supersonic’s Flyaway attachment to the Airwrap.

From The Verge • Mar. 18, 2022

Daughter Zoe, 29, is head of the mathematics department at the Henri Coanda Institute of Inventions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the Renault-engined Coanda tractor 1913, followed by 80 h.p.

From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by Barber, H. (Horatio)