Floris Nollet

Floris Nollet (* September 16, 1794; † January 11, 1853 ), a great-nephew of Jean -Antoine Nollet, was a professor of physics at the École Militaire in Brussels, Belgian inventor and founder of the Anglo- French joint stock company l' Alliance. He drew up plans for first large-scale generators for the electrical industry, for the production of hydrogen, for Drummond chromatic light and for the operation of arc lamps. His invention was patented in 1850 in England.

His generator

When developed by Nollet machine were on the stator up to 40 horseshoe magnets attached in which turned a rotor with numerous coils. To obtain the funding to establishment of the corporation, an illumination of the Hotel des Invalides was presented in Paris. For this demonstration, the power did not come from the generator, but from strong batteries. A scandal was the result, brought the newly started company in serious trouble. Nollet could experience until his death in 1853 no longer functioning machine. Under the leadership of his successor August Berlioz the generator was developed for operability. The breakthrough design of the generator Nolle Chernobyl in 1862 at the London Industrial Exhibition.

  • Generator of the Anglo- French Compagnie L'Alliance, built around 1870

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  • Personality of Electrical Engineering
  • Physicist (19th Century )
  • Belgian
  • Born in 1794
  • Died in 1853
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