Evangelos Artemis was a Greek engineer involved with unproven success - as the subject remains controversial - in the early development of Guided missiles. The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions Guided Missile is a London based Independent record label set up by Paul Kearney in 1994. Artemis studied Electrical Engineering in France and Austria and worked in France, the United Kingdom and Germany. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. According to Artemis himself, he conceived details of a guided missile when he studied German Bombardments of WWI. After working with designs invoving remote tracing and control, he started working after 1933, in Greece, on a remote guided "rocket" system. With state technical and financial support he constructed his prototypes, which were tested near the island of Salamina in the Summer of 1938. The word Salamina may refer to Salamis Island an Island in Greece Salamina a town and municipality in Piraeus Prefecture The fate of the designs remains a mystery to this date. Artemis claimed that the designs were given to a "foreign power", refusing any further development of his ideas. After WWII he worked in various research institutes, including the National Technical University of Athens, a city where he lived until May 12, 1980. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's
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- Extensive Article published in "TA NEA", a leading Greek newspaper (in Greek), in three parts, issues of December 15, December 16 and December 17, 1980 - a little after Artemis' death. A lot of details were reported in this article that included pictures of "rocket" sketches with handwritten notes (in French) by Artemis. It is also reported that the missile tests contacted in Salamina were particularly successful.
- L. S. Skartsis, "Encyclopedia of Greek Automobiles and Aircraft", Achaikes Ekdoseis/Typorama, Patras, Greece (1995). The author used the above source and independent interviews with people that knew Artemis.
- A few years before his death, it was reported that Artemis had expessed interest to have an interview with the well-known democratic activist and politician Alekos Panagoulis (killed in a car accident in 1976), one of those interested in the recognition of his work. Biography Alexandros Panagoulis was born in the Glyfada neighbourhood of Athens.