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Floris Nollet

Physicist, engineer, inventor

Died when: 58 years 117 days (699 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Floris Nollet

Floris Nollet (16 September 1794 – 11 January 1853) was a Belgian physicist, engineer, inventor.Nollet was a grandnephew of Jean-Antoine Nollet.He became professor of physics at the École Militaire in Brussels.

He also founded the British-French company .Nollet designed plans for large-scale generators for the galvanization industry, for limelight, and for electric arcs, an improvement on the work of Hippolyte Pixii.

His magneto-electric generator design for decomposing water by electrolysis using steam power was patented in England in 1850. * v * t * e * v * t * e


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