Floris Nollet

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

His generator

In the machine developed by Nollet, up to 40 horseshoe magnets were attached to the stator side in which a rotor with numerous coils turned. In order to obtain the funds for the establishment of the joint stock company, a lighting of the Hotel des Invalides was demonstrated in Paris . For this demonstration, however, the electricity did not come from the generator, but from powerful batteries . The result was a scandal which brought the newly founded company into serious trouble. Nollet could not see a functioning machine until his death in 1853. Under the direction of his successor August Berlioz, the generator was further developed for functionality. The Nolletscher design generator experienced its breakthrough in 1862 at the London industrial exhibition.

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