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    Léon Serpollet (4 October 1858 – 1 February 1907) was a French engineer and developer of flash steam boilers and steam automobiles. Léon Serpollet was...
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    late 1800s. Serpollet produced his own automobiles under the name Serpollet and Gardner-Serpollet until his death in 1907. Léon Serpollet was born in...
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    first industrially manufactured motor vehicles; it was designed by Léon Serpollet, and first presented in 1886. The tricycle possessed an oil-fired boiler...
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  • vehicle, a steam-powered tricycle. In 1886, the company collaborated with Léon Serpollet, followed by the development of an internal combustion car in 1890,...
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    from 1889 were steam-powered tricycles, built in collaboration with Léon Serpollet. In 1890, Armand Peugeot met with car technology innovators Gottlieb...
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  • Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (d. 1927) 1858 – Léon Serpollet, French businessman (d. 1903) 1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American...
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    generally attributed to Léon Serpollet who used a flash boiler in the Gardner-Serpollet steam-powered car from 1896. Serpollet's boiler was a low-water-content...
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    record over 100 km/h (62 mph). In 1902, he lost the land speed record to Léon Serpollet. Jenatzy won the 1903 Gordon Bennet Cup in Athy, Ireland, at the wheel...
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    record over 100 km/h (62 mph) April 13, 1902 Nice, France Léon Serpollet Gardner-Serpollet Œuf de Pâques (Easter Egg) Steam 75.06 120.80 August 5, 1902...
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  • Selker (inv. 1987), U.S. – Pointing stick Léon Serpollet (1858–1907), France – Flash boiler, Gardner-Serpollet steam car Iwan Serrurier (1878–1953), Netherlands/U...
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  • Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819) 1907 – Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858) 1908 – Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)...
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  • new land speed record of 74 mph (119 km/h) is set in Nice, France, by Léon Serpollet driving a steam car. July 17 – Willis Carrier devises the first modern...
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  • new land speed record of 74 mph (119 km/h) is set in Nice, France, by Léon Serpollet driving a steam car. April 19 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes...
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    goods. On his advice the company entered into a joint venture with Léon Serpollet in 1905 to build steam-powered buses. A new factory was built at Suresnes...
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    built a steam-powered car, some 27 years before that built in Paris by Léon Serpollet. He also built the first Zamboni from that technology In 1843 Manzetti...
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    as a society 'to encourage aerial locomotion' by Ernest Archdeacon, Léon Serpollet, Henri de la Valette, Jules Verne and his wife, André Michelin, Albert...
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    was fitted with pneumatic tyres.[citation needed] In the same year Léon Serpollet also constructed a coal-fired steam tricycle, with the "steam generator"...
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    sculpture was unveiled in 1909. Léon Serpollet was a French industrialist and maker of steam automobiles under the "Gardner-Serpollet" brand. He also designed...
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    vehicle, it being about three times further than the record set by Leon Serpollet from Paris to Lyon. On July 22, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit...
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    official road trial was in 1899. See steam tricycle The development by Léon Serpollet of the flash steam boiler brought about the appearance of various diminutive...
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  • the earliest pioneers in auto production. Armand Peugeot (along with Léon Serpollet) produced a three-wheeled steam-powered car in 1889, and produced a...
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    speed record April 13, 1902 Nice, France Promenade des Anglais Léon Serpollet Gardner-Serpollet Œuf de Pâques (Easter Egg) Steam 75.06 120.80 Aug 5, 1902 Albis-St...
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  • – Amédée Bollée begins manufacturing steam-powered vehicles. 1887 – Léon Serpollet begins building steam-powered vehicles. 1887 – Panhard et Levassor established...
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  • Coney Island, Brooklyn. Gottlieb Daimler produces the first truck. Léon Serpollet invents the flash boiler for the steam car. Captain Neville Bertie-Clay...
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    Fontaine du Passage-Léon, Square du Passage-Léon (1990), Michel de Sablet, designer. Fontaine Léon-Serpollet, Square Léon-Serpollet, rue de Cloÿs (1991)...
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    Peugeot Type 1 prototypes, which were powered by steam engines (from Léon Serpollet). The Type 1 received a tepid reception, and Peugeot was already aware...
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  • started to work with Léon Serpollet whose factory in the 18th arrondissement was about 10 km away. Le Blon competed in the Gardner-Serpollet steam car from...
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  • and the car moved. ...it was perfected in the atelier of the engineer Serpollet, which now takes all the credit.' Accessed 16 February 2018 The Automobile...
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    Orléans (B)/Tyre Trouble – Finished outside time limit. Léon Serpollet 20 Gardner-Serpollet Poitiers (B)/Broken Crank Shaft Paul Thaillier 37 Vincke...
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    from practical manufacturers like Peugeot, Panhard, de Dion-Bouton, and Serpollet to amateur owners and "over-ambitious concepts." Seventy-eight entrants...
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