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Benoît Fourneyron

1802 - 1867

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Benoît Fourneyron (31 October 1802 – 31 July 1867) was a French engineer, born in Saint-Étienne, Loire. Fourneyron made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Benoît Fourneyron was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, a nearby engineering school that had recently opened. After he graduated in 1816, he spent the next few years in mines and ironworks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît Fourneyron is the 231st most popular engineer (down from 209th in 2019), the 3,831st most popular biography from France (down from 3,504th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 231 out of 389Before him are Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, Anousheh Ansari, Seymour Cray, Johannes Winkler, and Georgy Beriev. After him are Enrico Forlanini, Béla Barényi, Jon Postel, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Eilmer of Malmesbury, and Alfred Neubauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 44Before him are Louis Niedermeyer, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Niccolò Tommaseo, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Adolphe d'Archiac, and Adolphe Niel. After him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, August Friedrich Pott, Eugène Flachat, Yuriy Venelin, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Alexander Odoevsky. Among people deceased in 1867, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 42Before him are Juan Álvarez, Ramón Castilla, Simon Sechter, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Georgi Sava Rakovski, and Santiago Derqui. After him are Mohammad Afzal Khan, Alexander Petrov, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, José Mariano Salas, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, and Artur Grottger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 3,831 out of 6,770Before him are Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet (1831), Cécilia Attias (1957), Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1874), René David (1906), Jean Delumeau (1923), and Edmond Aman-Jean (1858). After him are Antoine Bussy (1794), Jean de Brébeuf (1593), Alice Milliat (1884), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), Élodie Yung (1981), and Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 42Before him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Émile Levassor (1843), Michel Chevalier (1806), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Charles Renard (1847), and Eugène Belgrand (1810). After him are René Panhard (1841), Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), Léon Serpollet (1858), Louis Pouzin (1931), and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747).