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This week it’s full steam ahead with the story of a boiler for which the patent was filed on the 13th of December 1827 by Marc Seguin: a symbol of the industrial revolution which was to sweep away the century. Let’s raise the curtain on a particularly heated episode in history. A FAMILY AIR From the day he was born into a family of drapers in Annonay on the 20th of April 1786, Marc-François Seguin’s destiny seemed to lie in the air. His mother was one
This week, let’s take a look at a truly pumped-up Scottish inventor who, exactly 133 years ago, filed a patent that was to revolutionize a transport world which was itself undergoing profound changes: the pneumatic tire. AN IRISH BALLAD John Boyd Dunlop was born on the 5th of February 1840 on a farm in Dreghorn, Scotland. His natural curiosity and intelligence won him a place at the prestigious University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as a veterinary surgeon. He practiced
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This week, we look back on the major discovery of the most famous scientist in history who, on the 25th of November 1915, presented his general theory of relativity to the Prussian Royal Academy of Science. A FAR FROM ORDINARY STUDENT The famous Albert Einstein, who was born on the 14th of March 1879 in Ulm, was an astonishing personality. His scientific vocation was clear from an early age: he was barely five years old when he became fascinated by a compass, the functioning of which
This week, we tell you the story of one of the fathers of mechanics and automata, a man still very much part of our everyday lives, both technologically and artistically... AN EARLY CALLING Jacques de Vaucanson was born on the 24th of February 1709 in Grenoble into a large middle-class family. In spite of this, it was to overcome his loneliness that this glove-maker’s son revealed his exceptional mechanical abilities at a very early age. His mother took him every Sunday to visit
This week marks the anniversary of the birth of a certain George Jennings. Although this name probably means nothing to you, we all owe a debt of gratitude to this English engineer, since he is none other than the inventor of… public flush toilets. A MIND SWIRLING WITH IDEAS Josiah George Jennings was thus born on the 10th of November 1810 in Eling, Hampshire. The oldest of seven children, he started work upon the death of his father when he was only 14 and ended up joining
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