HUGON, Pierre (1814 - ?)

Civil Engineer and Director of the Gas Company of Paris.

Pierre Hugon is mainly known through his contribution to the early internal combustion engine.
The "Hugon" engine was the second internal combustion engine to go into commercial production and was a stationary engine along similar lines to the earlier "Lenoir" engine. He was active in experimenting with early internal combustion engines even before the first commercial engine was marketed by Étienne Lenoir. The commercial Hugon engine appeared in 1865, and in appearance much resembled the Lenoir engine, but with flame ignition and water spray injection into the cylinder to control the temperatures. Dugald Clerk provides a detailed engineering description of the engines of that era, and states that the Hugon engine was a "great improvement" on the Lenoir engine, and the consumption of gas was reduced. One surviving Hugon engine is owned by the Science Museum (London) and is currently on display at the Anson Engine Museum.

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HUGON, Pierre

Curriculum vitae

* 1814	Paris, France	nato
1858		Brevet français n°210-212 : «par rapport au pouvoir des moteurs par l'explosion de mélanges gaz / air».
1860		Brevet britannique n° 615 : « Améliorations dans l'obtention et l'application de la force motrice ».
1860		Brevet britannique n°1915 : «Améliorations dans les appareils à combustion de gaz dans les voitures, les bateaux, et d'autres structures mobiles ».
1860		Brevet britannique n° 2902 : «Un mode de cuisson amélioré, ou d'inflammation, d'explosion composés gazeux dans les moteurs à force motrice ».
1863		Brevet britannique n° 653 «Amélioration de machines pour l'obtention et l'application de la force motrice ».
19.01.1864		Brevet US n° 41299 : « Amélioration de moteurs à gaz ».
18.07.1865		Brevet US n° 48885 : "Amélioration Appareil de carbonisation de bois".
08.08.1865		Brevet US n° 49346 : "Amélioration de moteurs à gaz".
21.04.1874		Brevet US n° 150045 : "L'amélioration de manomètres".
† ?		morto

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		Industrializzazione, dal 1850 al 1920
		Razionalizzazione, dal 1920 al 1950

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=24472004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24472004.html

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HUGON, Pierre (1814 - ?)