Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville
French inventor, engineer and industrialist
Édouard Napoléon François Delamare-Deboutteville (8 February 1856 – 17 February 1901) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist. He is known for designing and operating one of the earliest automobiles powered by a petrol-fuelled four-stroke internal combustion engine, predating the Benz Patent-Motorwagen by nearly two years.2
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Born Feb 8, 1856, died Feb 17, 1901.1
Companies
- Delamare-DebouttevilleFounder10
Early life and education
- Date not recordedRouen Business School3
Delamare-Deboutteville was born in Rouen, France, into a wealthy textile industrialist family. He studied at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen and later managed the family spinning mill at Mont-Grimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg.
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Career
Occupation: industrialist, inventor.6
- Date not recordedFounded Delamare-Deboutteville4
- Date not recordedMayor of Fontaine-le-Bourg5
He continued developing gas engines under the brand Simplex. He received a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris for a 100 hp gas engine. The Belgian firm John Cockerill acquired manufacturing rights in July 1889 and later produced engines up to 700 hp by 1899.
Delamare-Deboutteville also published works on oyster farming, Sanskrit grammar, and maintained an ornithological collection. He held over 70 patents and was made Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1896.
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Personal life
Awards
- 1897Knight of the Legion of Honour9
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- 10WikidataDelamare-Deboutteville, Founder
- 11Wikimedia CommonsÉdouard Delamare-Deboutteville photo by Camille Lion, Public domain