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Benoît Fourneyron

1802 - 1867

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Benoît Fourneyron (31 October 1802 – 31 July 1867) was a French engineer, born in Saint-Étienne, Loire. Fourneyron made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Benoît Fourneyron was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, a nearby engineering school that had recently opened. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Fourneyron has received more than 44,552 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît Fourneyron is the 216th most popular engineer (down from 197th in 2019), the 3,476th most popular biography from France (down from 3,067th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 216 out of 323Before him are Paul Mauser, André Waterkeyn, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdinand Mannlicher, and Emily Warren Roebling. After him are Eugene Polley, Georgy Beriev, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Arkhip Lyulka, Gioacchino Colombo, and Enrico Forlanini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 43Before him are Louis Niedermeyer, Robert Chambers, Leopold Fitzinger, Adolphe d'Archiac, Adolphe Niel, and Edwin Landseer. After him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Adolphe Nourrit, Nicholas Wiseman, Eugène Flachat, and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff. Among people deceased in 1867, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 41Before him are Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Simon Sechter, Juan Álvarez, Alexander Petrov, Ramón Castilla, and Georgi Sava Rakovski. After him are Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Artur Grottger, Santiago Derqui, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 3,476 out of 6,011Before him are Édouard Deldevez (1817), Jean Desmarets (1595), Antonin Magne (1904), Jeanne Jugan (1792), Pasquier Quesnel (1634), and Andrée Brunet (1901). After him are Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), Bernard Maris (1946), René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Louis Réard (1897), and Hubertine Auclert (1848).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 38Before him are Louis Dollo (1857), Evgeny Paton (1870), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), and Charles Renard (1847). After him are Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Eugène Flachat (1802), and Marcel Deprez (1843).