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Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum. He began his career working for the Marconi company in 1935, and got married soon afterwards. He worked on radar systems during the Second World War. His great invention, the hovercraft, first saw the light of day in 1953. The idea was not an immediate success, and he was forced to sell personal possessions in order to finance his research. By 1959, a prototypePrototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. They are the best examples among the members of a category and serve as benchmarks against which the surrounding "poorer" instances are categorized (see Prototy craft was crossing the English ChannelThe English Channel is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. In French it is called La Manche ("the sleeve"). It is about 350 miles long and at its widest i between Dover and CalaisThis article is about the French city. Alternate meanings: Boreads (mythical), Calais, Maine, Calais, Vermont Calais is a city in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the departement of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-prefecture''.. Cockerell was knighted in 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i for his services to engineering. He died at HytheHythe is quite an affluent town near Southampton, Hampshire, England. It has a small shopping area with a Waitrose supermarket. Hythe Marina has a lot of expensive boats moored, and there are super-posh houses with gardens backing right onto the jetty. in HampshireHampshire is a county on the south coast of England. The 2001 census gave the population of the administrative county as 1. 24 million; the population including Portsmouth and Southampton was around 1. It borders on Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey an.