Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (6 April 1890 - 23 Desember 1939) adalah Seorang pelopor penerbangan dan produsen pesawat terbang Belanda - Amerika . Anthony (Tony) Fokker dilahirkan di Kediri, Jawa Timur. anak dari Herman Fokker seorang pemilik perkebunan kopi Belanda.
Early life
Anthony (Tony) Fokker was born in Blitar [1] (then Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), son of Herman Fokker, a Dutch coffee plantation owner. Some sources say that he was born in Kediri. At that time, Blitar was a part of so-called Kediri Residency, a colonial-era administrative division whose capital was in Kediri.
Four years later the family returned to the Netherlands and settled in Haarlem in order to provide Tony and his older sister, Toos, with a Dutch upbringing. Tony was not studious but rather played with model trains and steam engines, and he did not complete his high school education. He devised a leak-proof tire but this was not an original invention and was already patented.
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