Joseph-Philibert Desblanc
Joseph-Philibert Desblanc (* 1760 in Mâcon , Département Saône-et-Loire , France ; † November 27, 1820 in Trévoux , Département Ain , France) was an engineer, inventor and watchmaker and was the first to apply for a patent in France registered a steamship .
He was the son of Claude Desblanc and Marie Saurien. In 1782 he worked for the Jean brothers on the paddle steamer Pyroscaphe of the inventor Claude François Jouffroy d'Abbans . In the same year he designed his own steamship, in which the steam engine instead of a paddle wheel drove a chain with shovels and thus moved the ship. The ship had a length of 18.90 meters, a width of 4.90 meters and a draft of 0.61 meters. It was powered by a horizontal, double-acting steam engine. The piston of the steam engine had a diameter of 0.53 meters, this carried out a stroke of 1.37 meters. The ship is said to have been tested on the Saône , but was abandoned because of a design flaw in the chain.
In 1802, Desblanc received a patent on his invention, thus getting ahead of the American Robert Fulton . Claude François Jouffroy d'Abbans took action against the patent, but was not heard.
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Individual evidence
- ^ M. Valentin-Smith: Monograph de la Saône . Léon Boitel, Lyon 1852, p. 96 ( digitized in the Google book search)
- ^ Basil Clark: Steamboat Evolution . Lulu.com, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84753-201-5 , pp. 56–57 ( limited preview in Google book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desblanc, Joseph-Philibert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Desblanc, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engineer and inventor of a steamship |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mâcon , Saône-et-Loire department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1820 |
| Place of death | Trévoux , Ain department , France |