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Dupuy de Lôme, Stanislas Charles Henri Laurent

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Dupuy de Lôme, Stanislas Charles Henri Laurent (1816–1885)

French naval architect and inventor who designed the first French steam-powered warship, the Napoléon, launched in 1852.

Dupuy de Lôme was born at Ploemeur, near L'Orient in Brittany. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and in England. As well as designing steamships, he devised ways of converting sail-powered men-of-war to steam. During the Siege of Paris in 1871 he planned to break the blockade by constructing a steerable balloon, but the siege ended before it could be used.



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