Edward Robert Armstrong

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Edward Robert Armstrong (1876–1955) was a

• Armstrong was born in 1876 in Guelph, Ontario.
• He moved to the United States and worked in Texas in the early 1900s, developing oil-well-drilling machinery.
• In 1909 he went to
  St. Louis, Missouri
  as an automotive and aviation engineer.
• In 1916 he went to DuPont to work on the construction of their nitrocellulose plant in Hopewell, Virginia. He was then promoted to chief of the plant's mechanical research department.
• In 1924 he quit DuPont to work full-time on his "seadrome" project. In 1926 he incorporated the "Armstrong Seadrome Development Company", of Wilmington, Delaware.
• He died in 1955.

Seadrome

A seadrome was to be a floating steel landing strip, the size of an

During the years following the depression, Armstrong made a number of rebids for the program and eventually the project was downsized from eight to five seadromes as planes had become more advanced. By WWII, the advent of long-range passenger flight made the concept obsolete.

Armstrong's efforts with DuPont and Sun Ship Building, owned by Sun Oil, led to his ideas and basic designs being used by the oil industry to create the Semi-submersible off shore oil rig.^[2]

Publications

• Edward Robert Armstrong; America-Europe via North Atlantic airways over the Armstrong seadrome system of commercial ocean transit by airplane (1927)
• Edward Robert Armstrong; The seadrome project for transatlantic airways (1943)
• Leonard H. Quick; Seadrome: phase 1 report

See also

• Aircraft carrier
• Lily and Clover
• Project Habakkuk
• F.P.1, 1937 film

References