Louis Delaunay-Belleville
Louis Delaunay-Belleville (November 20, 1843 – February 10, 1912)[1] was a French engineer, director of the Belleville Workshops dedicated to the manufacture of large steam engines and later to the production of Delaunay-Belleville automobiles.
Biography
Educated at St. Barbe and at the École Polytechnique, he entered the Naval Engineering School in 1864, and in 1867 began working for the Belleville Workshops located in Saint-Denis, near Paris.
He married Marie Anne Elisabeth Belleville, daughter of Julien Belleville (1823–1896), and eventually became a partner and later head of the company that produced the well-known Belleville boilers and later the Delaunay-Belleville automobile. In 1884, he changed his surname to Delaunay-Belleville.
Positions
- President of the Paris Chamber of Commerce from 1890 to 1909[2]
- Regent of the Bank of France
- General Director of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris[3]
Publications
- Du régime commercial des ports de navigation intérieure en France
- Lois et règlements concernant les appareils à vapeur, en Europe et aux États-Unis d'Amérique
Recognitions
- Naval Merit Cross awarded by the Government of Spain (April 11, 1899)[4]
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor (April 12, 1900)
- Cross of the Order of Charles III awarded by the Government of Spain (October 25, 1900)[5]
References
- ↑ https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=1922_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Delaunay-Belleville%2C+Louis
- ↑ https://books.google.es/books?id=zFakUN-2qQMC&pg=PA338#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Delaunay-Belleville#cite_ref-3
- ↑ La Epoca, Madrid, November 4, 1899, p.3
- ↑ Official Guide of Spain, 1910, p.157