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    Alphonse Loubat (15 June 1799 – 10 September 1866) was a French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment, and helped develop tram...
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  • in the field of industrial design Camille Alphonse Faure (1840–1898), French chemical engineer Alphonse Loubat (1799–1866), French inventor who developed...
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    permanent tram line in continental Europe was opened in Paris in 1855 by Alphonse Loubat who had previously worked on American streetcar lines. The tram was...
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    supplanted in 1852 by grooved rails or girder rails, invented by Alphonse Loubat. Loubat, inspired by Stephenson, built the first tramline in Paris, France...
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    and philanthropist. Loubat was born in New York City to Alphonse Loubat and Susan Gaillard Loubat. His father was a French inventor and businessman who...
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  • Rebellion: The Taiping army takes Hankou. The grooved rail is developed by Alphonse Loubat. The Devil's Island penal colony opens in the colony of French Guiana...
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    but may act as a checkrail. Grooved rail was invented in 1852 by Alphonse Loubat, a French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment...
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  • catch the narrow tyres of horse-drawn carriages. The invention by Alphonse Loubat in 1852 of grooved rail enabled tramways to be laid without causing...
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    of trams was that of the girder rail developed in 1852 by Frenchman Alphonse Loubat. It brought the tram track down to road level, avoiding accidents with...
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    but the technology did not really become popular until 1852, when Alphonse Loubat invented a side-bearing rail that could be laid flush with the street...
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    The Sarah Bernhardt Pages Works by Sarah Bernhardt at Project Gutenberg Loubat, Emmanuelle: Bernhardt, Sara, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia...
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    Mexicans. On that occasion, she entered into conflict with the Duke of Loubat, who published it in 1904 without crediting her with the discovery. In 1911...
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  • brigade) Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge (général de division) Jean-Claude Loubat de Bohan (général de brigade) Nicolas de Loverdo (général de division) Tomasz...
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    been introduced in New York in 1832. A French engineer living in New York, Loubat, brought the idea to Paris and opened the first tramway line in Paris, between...
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