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Gustave Trouvé
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G. TROUVÉ
14 Rue Vivienne
PARIS
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EUREKA ! G. TROUVÉ !
«Gustave Trouvé, le da Vinci du 19ème siècle?» (The da Vinci of the 19th Century?) This is because May 2019 also commemorates the 500th...
Watch this space
From 11 to 19 May, 2019, the Commune of La Haye-Descartes, in collaboration with Gilbert Jamois and Kevin Desmond, are organising an...
Priceless junk from 44 rue Vivienne?
Monsieur Jean-Michel Labiche of Versailles, France is the proud owner of this rare Trouvé electrical apparatus for dentistry which he...
The time at night!
Did Trouvé also invent the night light clock? We found this engraving in “La Nature”, dated February 1884. Projection clocks were...
"Electropolis: the Mad History of Electricity"
In France, the graphic novel is immensely popular, with 43 million books sold in 2017 alone. The city of Angoulême is for graphic novels,...
G. Trouvé, N-J Raffard and Jean-Baptiste André Godin
On 16 April, 1881, the world’s first battery-electric tricycle, assembled by Trouvé and his neighbour, N-J Raffard went on trials along...
Roots
Gilbert Jamois who is as passionate about the life and works of Gustave Trouvé as Kevin Desmond, recently used a genealogical website to...
Now a truly bilingual website.
It seems only right that our website should also be “en français”, given our inventor’s nationality. This little film presents, in...
An irresistibly sweet previous occupant!
From 1878 until his fatal accident in 1902, Trouvé lived and worked at N°14 rue Vivienne, in Paris. But who was living and working there...
A bill for a parachute, a bomb, a fish and a trailer
In an old mansion in the French Charente region, formerly the property of wealthy brandy maker Elie Ferrand, and until recently derelict,...
An inventor is born
In 1845 Gustave Pierre Trouvé, the eight-year-old son of Jacques and Clarisse Trouvé, designed and built a wind-powered puppet show,...
Trouvé, artists and writers.
The detail inventory of Trouvé’s belongings, made in the weeks following his tragic death in July 1902, recently-re discovered in the...
Bois Durci
As we had hoped, sometimes people visiting our website often contact us with news about Gustave Trouvé. Monsieur Gaston Vermosen of...
A young Trouvé looks on!
On February 10th, biographer Kevin Desmond gave a talk about Gustave Trouvé at the Bordeaux International School, France. Imagine his...
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