Editing Anthony Fokker (section)

==Early life==
Anthony (Tony) Fokker was born in [[Blitar]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Santosa |first=Eddi |url=http://www.detiknews.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2007/bulan/02/tgl/28/time/082020/idnews/747790/idkanal/10 |title=Laporan dari Den Haag: Fokker, dari Kediri Lalu Mendunia |trans-title=Report from The Hague: Fokker, from Kediri Went Worldwide |language=id |website=detiknews.com |date=28 February 2007 |access-date=8 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929020444/http://news.detik.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2007/bulan/02/tgl/28/time/082020/idnews/747790/idkanal/10 |archive-date=29 September 2013}}</ref> [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indonesia]]), to Herman Fokker, a Dutch coffee [[plantation]] owner and Johanna Hugona Wouterina Wilhelmina Diemont.<ref name=huyghens>{{cite book|contribution=Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard (1890-1939)|title=Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland|url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn1/fokker|volume=1|place=The Hague|year=1979|language=nl|access-date=15 December 2023}}</ref> Some sources say that he was born in [[Kediri Regency|Kediri]]. At that time, Blitar was a part of the "Kediri Residency", a colonial administrative division the capital of which was Kediri. He was a cousin of the physicist [[Adriaan Fokker]].<ref name=fokker-huyghens>{{cite web|title=Adriaan Daniël Fokker (1887-1972)|website=Stichting Huyghens-Fokker|url=https://www.huygens-fokker.org/wieiswie/fokker.html|language=nl|access-date=15 December 2023}}</ref>

When Fokker was four, the family returned to the [[Netherlands]] and settled in [[Haarlem]] in order to provide Fokker and his older sister, Toos, with a Dutch upbringing.<ref name=huyghens />

Fokker was not a studious boy and did not complete his high school education. However, he showed an early interest in mechanics, and preferred making things, playing with model trains and steam engines, and experimenting with model aeroplane designs.<ref name=huyghens />

As a high school student, he devoted considerable effort to the development of a wheel that would not suffer from punctures; basically a wheel with a perimeter formed by a series of metal plates.<ref name=huyghens />