Name: | Etienne Lenoir |
Occupation: | Entrepreneur |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | January 12, 1822 |
Death Date: | Aug 4, 1900 (age 78) |
Age: | Aged 78 |
Country: | Belgium |
Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
Etienne Lenoir
Trivia
Does Etienne Lenoir Dead or Alive?
As per our current Database, Etienne Lenoir died on Aug 4, 1900 (age 78).
Physique
Height | Weight | Hair Colour | Eye Colour | Blood Type | Tattoo(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Before Fame
He taught himself chemistry and engineering.
Biography
Biography Timeline
By 1859, Lenoir’s experimentation with electricity led him to develop the first internal combustion engine which burned a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a “jumping sparks” ignition system by Ruhmkorff coil, and which he patented in 1860. The engine was a steam engine converted to burn gaseous fuel and thus pushed in both directions. The fuel mixture was not compressed before ignition (a system invented in 1801 by Philippe LeBon who developed the use of illuminating gas to light Paris), and the engine was quiet but inefficient, with a power stroke at each end of the cylinder. In 1863, the Hippomobile, with a hydrogen gas fueled, one cylinder, internal combustion engine, made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont: top speed about 9 km in ~3 hours.
Lenoir was an engineer at Petiene et Cie (Petiene & Company), who supported him in his founding of the companies of Corporation Lenoir-Gautier et Cie engines Paris and Société des Moteurs Lenoir in Paris in 1859, with a capitalization of two million francs and a factory in the Rue de la Roquette, to develop the engine, and a three-wheeled carriage constructed to use it. Although it ran reasonably well, the engine was fuel inefficient, extremely noisy, tended to overheat, and, if sufficient cooling water was not applied, seize up. Nevertheless, Scientific American reported, in September 1860, that the Parisian newspaper Cosmos had pronounced the steam age over. By 1865, 143 had been sold in Paris alone, and production of Lenoir Gas Engines, by Reading Gas Works in London, had begun.
Lenoir had completed work on his engine in 1859 and had a grand unveiling on 23 January 1860, for twenty guests. In his speech he said, “If it works, I will add carburetor heating, at a constant level, which will allow the use of petrol, or gasoline, or tar, or any resin”. He turned on the illuminating gas valve, pushed the flywheel, and the engine came to life. In 1860, Lenoir received a patent for “an air motor expanded by gas combustion” from Conservatoire National Des Arts Et Métiers, no. N.43624
In 1861, he put one of his engines in a boat. In 1863, Lenoir demonstrated a second three-wheeled carriage, the Hippomobile, little more than a wagon body set atop a tricycle platform. It was powered by a 2543 cc (155 in; 180×100 mm, 7.1×3.9in) 1.5 hp, “liquid hydrocarbon” (petroleum) engine with a primitive carburettor which was patented in 1886. It successfully covered the 11 km (7 mi) from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont and back in about ninety minutes each way, an average speed less than that of a walking man (though doubtless there were breakdowns). This succeeded in attracting the attention of Tsar Alexander II, and one was sent to Russia, where it vanished; Lenoir was not pleased. In 1863, he sold his patents to Compagnie parisienne de gaz and turned to motorboats instead, building the first naptha, a Ligroin fueled four-cycle in 1888. Jules Verne wrote in his 1863 novel Paris in the Twentieth Century of boulevards crowded with horseless carriages, “the Lenoir machine applied to locomotion.”
In 1865, Lenoir returned to electrical engineering. He developed a new type of automatic telegraph device that could send information in written form. This device was of great value during the Franco-Prussian War. He also installed an improved version of his engine in a 12 meter long boat for a Mr. Dalloz who used it on the Seine for two years.
Lenoir was granted French citizenship in 1870 for assistance during the Franco-Prussian War, and awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1881 (not for the engine, but for developments in telegraphy). Lenoir’s later years were impoverished despite his engine’s success.
On 16 July 1900, not long before his death, Lenoir received an award from the ACF (Automobile Club de France), which was a vermeil plate with the inscription, “In recognition of his great merits as an inventor of the gas engine and builder of the first car in the world.”
Lenoir died in La Varenne-Sainte-Hilaire on 4 August 1900.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Etienne Lenoir is 199 years, 10 months and 23 days old. Etienne Lenoir will celebrate 200th birthday on a Wednesday 12th of January 2022.
Find out about Etienne Lenoir birthday activities in timeline view here.
Etienne Lenoir trends
trends.embed.renderExploreWidget(“TIMESERIES”, {“comparisonItem”:[{“keyword”:”Etienne Lenoir”,”geo”:””,”time”:”today 12-m”}],”category”:0,”property”:””}, {“exploreQuery”:”q=Etienne Lenoir&date=today 12-m”,”guestPath”:”https://trends.google.com:443/trends/embed/”});
FAQs
- Who is Etienne Lenoir
? - How rich is Etienne Lenoir
? - What is Etienne Lenoir
‘s salary? - When is Etienne Lenoir
‘s birthday? - When and how did Etienne Lenoir
became famous? - How tall is Etienne Lenoir
? - Who is Etienne Lenoir
‘s girlfriend? - List of Etienne Lenoir
‘s family members? - Why do people love Etienne Lenoir?