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September 30, 1870: Jean Perrin, the father of electronics

What happened this week in the History of Industry? It is to answer this question that Global Industrie invites you to rediscover, every week, an historical event which occurred around this time… in another age. We propose to take you back 150 years to the beautiful city of Lille, which saw the birth of a scientific genius whose research is still revolutionizing the world today…   WELCOME TO THE LAND OF THE CH'TI   When Jean Perrin took his first breath on

2020.10.21
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21 SEPTEMBER 1574: Bernard Palissy, the father of ceramics

What happened this week in the History of Industry? It is to answer this question that Global Industrie invites you to rediscover, every week, a historical event which occurred around this time… in another age. At a time when ceramic is becoming one of the “new” materials increasingly prized in industry, let us pay tribute to its symbolic figurehead in France, Bernard Palissy, who, on the 21st of September 1574, was received in the Louvre by Catherine de Médicis to present

2020.09.21
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12 September 1909: synthetic rubber is born

What happened this week in the History of Industry? It is to answer this question that Global Industrie invites you to rediscover, every week, a historical event which occurred around this time… in another age. Today, let’s take a closer look at a German chemist, Fritz Hofmann, who filed a patent for the first synthetic rubber on the 12th of September 1909. The (en)tire story…    PLASTIC IS FANTASTIC, BUT RUBBER’S SUPER TOUGH   When Fritz Hofmann

2020.09.09