Famous People with Name Giffard

Henri Giffard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Henri Giffard: was a French engineer in France.Giffard invented the injector and the powered airship with a steam engine weighing over 400 lb; it was the world's first passenger-carrying airship (known as a Dirigible).[1] Both practical and steerable, the hydrogen-filled airship was equipped with a 3 hp steam engine that drove a propeller. The engine was fitted with a downward pointing funnel. The exhaust stream was mixed in with the combustion gases and it was hoped by these means to stop sparks rising up to the gas bag; he also installed a vertical rudder.

Robert Giffard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Robert Giffard: was a French surgeon and apothecary who became a prestigious colonist and businessman and eventually a nobleman of New France. As a naval surgeon, Giffard made several voyages to Quebec between 1621 and 1627, a year when it's known he had a cabin in the woods outside of the colony.