Gustave Trouvé

Gustave Trouvé (* January 2, 1839 La Haye- Descartes, † 1902 ) was a French inventor, electrical engineer and chemist.

The first " officially " recognized electric vehicle comes from him. In 1881 he built an electric tricycle with rechargeable battery, which was presented at the Exposition internationale d' Electricité in Paris the public. Trouvé also constructed the first outboard motor for ships.

Life

Gustave Trouvé was as born on January 2, 1839 the son of the cattle dealer Jacques Trouvé and his wife Marie Clarisse Granger in La Haye- Descartes. His parents sent him to the Collège de Chinon. He then studied at the École des Arts et Métiers. After training, he began to work for a watch factory in Paris. There he contributed several inventions.

First electric vehicle

Gustave Trouvé used a three-wheeled bicycle. The engine was installed below the axis. On April 19, 1881 Gustave Trouvé went with this electric car in Paris several times up and down.

Before him, Thomas Davenport had in 1834 already built the first electric vehicle with a then non -rechargeable battery. Nevertheless, it is debatable whether Davenport's electric vehicle is really to be regarded as a car, because it went to a very small rail loop, so it can also be seen as a forerunner of today's tram.

Outboard engine and helicopter

• Trouvé developed around 1881 the first electric outboard motor for boats and 1887, he is working on a helicopter with a self-developed electric motor.

• The urology he brought ahead with a measure of the strength of the bladder contraction.
• Trouvé developed a model of an ornithopter, that before the French Academy of Sciences by means of black powder flew 70 meters at the screening before 1870.

Source

• Gustave Trouvé page about his hometown of Descartes