Benoit Furnernon ( fr. Benoît Fourneyron ; October 31, 1802 , Saint-Etienne - July 8, 1867 , Paris ) - French engineer and deputy. Invented a hydraulic motor called the Furnernon turbine and used for the first time at the Daville and Co. factory in Tuval.
| Benoit Furneron | |
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| Benoît fourneyron | |
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| Date of Birth | October 31, 1802 |
| Place of Birth | Saint-Etienne , France |
| Date of death | July 8, 1867 ( 64) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
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| Occupation | , |
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In 1848 , after the revolution , he was elected to the constituent assembly, was a member of the right, and was voted out of office in new elections.
In 1848, engineer James Francis, based on the Furnernon turbine, created a radial-axis hydraulic turbine , which is widely used now, for example, at the world's largest Three Gorges hydroelectric station.
Proceedings
- “Mémoire sur les turbines hydrauliques” (Liege, 1841);
- “Table pour faciliter les calculs des formulas relatives au mouvement des eaux dans les tuyaux de conduite” (P., 1844)
Literature
Furnneron turbine 1834 in the German Museum
- Furnneron, Benoit // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.