About Floris Nollet
Lived 1794 – 1853 (aged 58). Floris Nollet was a Belgian soldier, physicist and inventor.
Floris Nollet (16 September 1794 – 11 January 1853) was a Belgian physicist, engineer, and inventor.
Nollet was a grandnephew of Jean-Antoine Nollet. He became professor of physics at the École Militaire in Brussels. He also founded the British-French company Société de l'Alliance.
Nollet designed plans for large-scale generators for the galvanization industry, for limelight, and for electric arcs, an improvement on the work of Hippolyte Pixii. His magneto-electric generator design for decomposing water by electrolysis using steam power was patented in England in 1850.
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physicist, engineer, inventor (1794–1853)
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Floris Nollet was born on 16 September 1794 in Élouges.
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Floris Nollet died on 11 January 1853.
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Floris Nollet was a soldier, physicist and inventor.
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Floris Nollet was Belgian.
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