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Gustave Trouvé
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G. TROUVÉ
14 Rue Vivienne
PARIS
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Life-saving oxygen!
With British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, wearing an enclosed spacesuit during his voyage and joining his colleagues for six months in the...
"May the Force be with you"
With Star Wars Episode VII “The Force Awakens” premiering in Paris, those legendary light sabers remind us of when in 1887, Parisian...
Paris revisited
This first week of December 2015, no less than 195 heads of state and government have converged on Le Bourget outside Paris and attempt...
Bullets and Shrapnel
Today as surgeons work 24/24 using highly sophisticated CT Scans and X-Rays to locate and extract terrorists’ bullets and shrapnel from...
All lit up!
StartFragmentIn the 1880's when Trouvé invented his luminous electric jewelry for paris theatres, the light bulbs were big and the...
Hog hunting by night
In July 1889, twenty years after developing his electric rifle, Trouvé announced his firearm for nocturnal use including a luminous...
Another survivor!
In 1890, an electric toy yacht, its miniscule motor and battery installed by Trouvé, was shipped out to Japan as a gift for the young...
Under the hammer!
Some Trouvé objects are at last beginning to fetch prices worthy of their inventor. At midday GMT on Thursday 24 September 2015, the...
The hunt for Trouvé' treasures...
One of the challenges for the rehabilitation of Gustave Trouvé has been the discovery of any of the instruments that he constructed. What...
Place Gustave Trouvé
In September 2014, Monsieur Arnaud Bureau, a councillor for the town of Grez-Neuville in the Lionnais region of France was looking for a...
Night Vision
In July 1889, twenty years after developing his electric rifle, Trouvé announced his firearm for nocturnal use including a luminous...
Artificial Muscle
1877 Struck by the considerable effects that a weak electric current produced on his muscles, Trouvé thought that here must reside one of...
About that lamp....
The only known surviving example of Trouvé’s portable electric safety lamp (conceived and constructed by the inventor early in 1884) is...
Trouvé arrives in the US
The US publisher of “Gustave Trouvé, French Electrical Genius”, McFarland & Company Inc., is a leading independent publisher of academic...
Nothing could be finer than Trouvé in North Carolina
Tom Hesselink and his skilled team at Budsin Woodcraft in North Carolina are one of the finest builders of electric wooden boats, not...
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