Olteanul care a uimit lumea științifică: George (Gogu) Constantinescu – părintele teoriei sonicității, campionul invențiilor
The Oltenian Who Astonished the Sicentific World: George (Gogu) Constantinescu – the Founder of the Theory of Sonics, a Prolific Inventor

Summary/Abstract: George (Gogu) Constantinescu (1881–1965), was the Romanian engineer who revolutionized science by creating a new field of mechanics called sonicity (the transmission of energy through vibrations in fluids or solids) and also he has over 370 inventions and innovations with real world applicability. He was, ironically, on the brink of falling into anonymity simply for the fact that his theory regarding the compressibility of liq uids was ignored and unrecognized by scientific forums of the time (even physics schoolbooks state the opposite) and also, the Patent Institutes of USA, England, France and Romania denied him a number of patent filings. Other impediments for the promotion of his inventions were, on one hand the fact that they were mostly focused on military technology (sonic cannon, sonic firing mechanism – through the propeller blades, automatic gear changer), on the other hand there was a lack of specialty publications at the time. By applying the principles of sonicity discovered and proven by George (Gogu) Constantinescu, another famous engineer, Ion Basgan, invented a drilling mechanism that was adopted by all the large companies in the world; without it the oil and gas indus try would not have made any progress which makes his invention comparable to what Bill Gates did for the field of computing (the Windows Operating System). This short summary is a homage brought to George (Gogu) Constantinescu – member of the Romanian Academy, prolific inventor, patriot and great fighter in the service of scientific truth.

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