VIOLET, Marcel Achille (1886 - 1973)
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Arts and Crafts engineer and French inventor. He is considered as the father of two-stroke engine for automobiles and has designed the engine of the French famous brand motorcycle SIMCA SEVITAM.

Violet Marcel is regarded as the father of two-stroke engine for automobiles and has designed the engine of the French famous brand motorcycle SIMCA SEVITAM. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In 1920 he resumes the work of Stanislas Bignan in 1956 and set a patent for a "device treating electro-vibration of water and different bodies or liquids."
   
variant spelling:
VIOLET, Marcel Achille
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 1886 born
29.03.1917 Patent n° US1424695 : elastic fork for motor cycles and other vehicles having a single steering wheel.
21.06.1917 Patent n° US1326810 : Igniting device for explosion motors.
21.11.1921 Patent n° US1346069 : Multicylinder two-stroke motor.
17.02.1956 Dépôt de brevet n°FR1.142.722 : Dispositif pour le traitement électro-vibratoire de l'eau et de différents corps liquides.
† 1973 died
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Rationalisation, ca. 1920-1950
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