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French soldier and mechanical engineer, who is credited with a paper-making invention that became the blueprint of the Fourdrinier machine.
Nicolas-Louis Robert, inventor who with his brother and Jacques Charles launched the first hydrogen balloon in Paris in 1783. In 1798 French soldier and mechanical engineer Louis-Nicolas Robert invented the first papermaking machine. Robert applied for a French patent for his machine on September 9, 1798; it was granted in 1799. Robert and Didot quarreled over the ownership of the invention. Robert eventually sold both the patent and the prototype machine to Didot for 25,000 francs but he was forced to recover legal ownership of the patent on 23 June 1801. Didot wanted to develop and patent the machine in England, away from the distractions of the French Revolution, so he sent his English brother-in-law, John Gamble, to London. In 1812, Robert retired from paper-making and left Corbeil-Essonnes. He moved to Vernouillet, Eure-et-Loir and opened a small school, Faubourg St Thibault. The French economy was very depressed after Napoleon's defeats, and Robert was very poorly paid. He continued teaching until his death. A statue of him stands in front of the church in Vernouillet, and the "Collège de Louis-Nicolas Robert" in the in the area of the Grandes Vauvettes is named in his honor.
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diversa grafia:
ROBERT, Louis-Nicolas
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History
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* 12.12.1761
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Église Saint-Eustache
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nato
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23.04.1780
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Grenoble
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A rejoint le premier bataillon de l'artillerie.
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1781
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Metz
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A rejoint le régiment d'artillerie.
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1781 - 1790
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Grade de sergent-major dans l'armée. Participe à la guerre indépendance américaine.
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1783
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Paris
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Lancement du ballon à hydrogène la première fois.
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1790
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Paris
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Commis sous contrat à l'une des familles Didot (maisons d'édition renommées).
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1791
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«Inspecteur de personnel» de Pierre-François Didot pour la fabrication du papier à l’usine de Corbeil-Essonnesil.
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1799
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Invention : La machine Fourdrinier, la base de la fabrication moderne du papier.
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† 08.08.1828
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Vernouillet
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morto
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