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surface-effect vehicles, to use the term hovering was by Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg in 1716.

The shipbuilder John Isaac Thornycroft patented an early design for an air cushion ship / hovercraft in the 1870s, but suitable, powerful, engines were not available until the 20th century.

In 1915, the Austrian Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl (1880-1956) built the world's

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