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Gustave Trouvé
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G. TROUVÉ
14 Rue Vivienne
PARIS
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Look carefully and what do you see?
You will see that this bill dates from three months before he died. It is the ONLY Invoice that we have yet to discover.....and it is for...
Luminous electric walking stick
In 1884 Elie Ferrand of Segonzac in the Charente, France, shipped two cases of his fine champagne cognac (1844) to Monsieur Gustave...
Moving images of a magical moment
Click on any of the images below to view the video of the unveiling ceremony!
Trouvé comes home
"On the sunny morning of Saturday 15 October 2016, a fine marbled plaque was at last unveiled in a narrow street in the very heart of the...
Bonjour, je suis Trouvé, Gustave Trouvé!
Jacques Blanc was recently looking through documents in a very old chateau in the Charente Region of France. This chateau had once been...
Certainly NOT Resting In Peace!
It was today, on July 27 1902, that Gustave Trouvé, aged 62, died in the intensive care unit of the Saint Louis Hospital in Paris, mostly...
Cast in stone
Great news! A commemorative plaque has now been carved and official permission obtained for its positioning on the wall of 14 rue...
Hidden Troves
We know there are Trouvé instruments lurking in the corner of museums. Recently, Damien Kuntz of Electropolis visited EDF’s 1,100 square...
Philately & Gustave
Gustave Trouvé most surely deserves a commemorative postage stamp. Above are a few fac-simile examples of how this MIGHT appear. Now it...
Radiators...... but not as we know them!
In the last years of his life, between 1900 and 1902, Trouvé was miniaturising devices for using certain wavelengths of light to heal...
Electricity Afloat
"As he tested his electric boat, Le Téléphone, up and down the River Seine in Paris in May 1881, Gustave must have wondered whether his...
A Fountain of Light
In the 1890's, Trouvé began to work on luminous electric fountains, and before long, with his customary speed and vision, he proposed a...
Bonne Année
Happy New Year! Be it your wristwatch, phone, tablet, kindle, computer, or even kitchen clock, they are all battery-powered and as we...
Joyeux Noël!
Today the use of multi-coloured led lights as Christmas decorations and for trees has become universal. Two different families as far...
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