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Maybe - the English inventor Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet engine along with a German scientist at the same time but not knowing each other's work.

Jul 29, 2018 · Inventor of the first jet engine. An Englishman and a German both contemporaneously invented jet engines. Sir Frank Whittle is often given credit for the invention of the turbojet engine which made jet airplanes possible. The truth is that he and a German physicist Hans von Ohain both independently invented jet engines in the late 1930’s.

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They never strapped Sir Whittle’s gizmo to the underside of a Messerschmitt.