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    miniaturization. Gustave Trouvé was born on 2 January 1839 in La Haye-Descartes (Indre-et-Loire, France) into a modest family. His father, Jacques Trouvé, was a...
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  • Trouvé is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aurélie Trouvé (born 1979), French politician Gustave Trouvé (1839–1902), French...
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  • skin diseases using UV light. In 1900, the French electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé miniaturized Finsen's machine with a series of portable light radiators...
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    gas was introduced circa 1894 and bicycle lamps from 1896. In France, Gustave Trouvé, a Parisian electrical engineer, also made domestic acetylene lamps...
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    tested along a Paris street in April 1881 by French inventor Gustave Trouvé. In 1880 Trouvé improved the efficiency of a small electric motor developed...
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  • ornithopter by Gustave Trouvé in 1870 First manned balloon mail during the Siege of Paris (1871) First outboard motorboat by Gustave Trouvé around 1870,...
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    following experimental electric cars appeared during the 1880s: In 1881, Gustave Trouvé presented an electric car driven by an improved Siemens motor at the...
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    served as the basis for a commercial toy offered by Pichancourt c. 1889. Gustave Trouvé was the first to use internal combustion, and his 1890 model flew a...
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    motor was a small 11 pound (5 kg) electric unit designed around 1870 by Gustave Trouvé, and patented in May 1880 (Patent N° 136,560). Later about 25 petrol...
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    blue/grey waterproof oilskins In 1900, French electrical engineer, Gustave Trouvé, patented a battery-powered wearable lifejacket. It incorporated small...
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    first fire sirens were manufactured. In 1886 French electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé developed a siren to announce the silent arrival of his electric boats...
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    when gasoline-powered outboard motors became the dominant method. Gustave Trouvé, a French electrical engineer, patented a small electric motor in 1880...
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    René Boylesve, writer and literary critic, the electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé, and the composer René de Buxeuil. Descartes is twinned with four other...
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    electrical distribution network by Marcel Deprez, and an electric boat by Gustave Trouvé. As part of the exhibition, the first International Congress of Electricians...
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    through a hose from a boiler on the ground. In 1887 Parisian inventor, Gustave Trouvé, built and flew a tethered electric model helicopter.[citation needed]...
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    powered by internal combustion engines. In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a three-wheeled car powered by electricity at the International...
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  • Alexandria, Virginia, as the first high school in Virginia. January 2 – Gustave Trouvé, French electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1902) January 8 – William...
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    over 500,000 sales as of September 2020[update]. During the 1880s, Gustave Trouvé, Thomas Parker and Andreas Flocken built experimental electric cars...
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    by non-rechargeable primary cells. In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled car powered by electricity at the...
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  • the first commercial electrical generator, the Gramme machine. 1874: Gustave Trouvé invents the first metal detector. 1875: Fyodor Pirotsky invents the...
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    had a similar detector and an extractor also wired to a bell. In 1870 Gustave Trouvé, a French electrical engineer also had a similar device however his...
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    perception of acoustic discontinuities. In 1894, French electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé patented an electrically (or clockwork) powered keyboard instrument...
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    sème la pagaille au conseil du IX e Le Constitutionel Kevin Desmond, Gustave Trouvé: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902), McFarland, 2015, p. 159. Cité...
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    16 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-22. "Bangladesh-made boat wins Gustave Trouvé Awards". businesspostbd.com. Retrieved 2022-11-13. "First circumnavigation...
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    Gussies Award for the Best Electric Ferry in the World 2020 in memory of Gustave Trouvé Solar Impulse Foundation Efficient Solution Label as a profitable and...
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    List of Russian inventions Firecracker welding Desmond,Kevin (2015) Gustave Trouve: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902) – McFarland Foussereau, M. (1882)...
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  • Jūdō, Japanese general, admiral, and politician (b. 1843) July 27 – Gustave Trouvé, French electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1839) August 8 – James...
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  • Hertz Gustav Mie Gustav Naan Gustav Zeuner Gustav de Vries Gustave-Adolphe Hirn Gustave Trouvé Guy Deutscher (physicist) Guy von Dardel Gwyn Jones (physicist)...
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  • line holding the helicopter. In 1887, Parisian electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé demonstrated his tethered electric model helicopter at a meeting of...
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    in Poland) (d. 1949, assassinated by independence activists) Died: Gustave Trouvé, 63, French electrical engineer who invented miniature and less heavy...
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