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in Paris. Colleagues he met in this position recommended him to Zenobe Gramme, and in 1871, Fontaine was hired to administer the newly established Société des Machines magnéto-électriques Gramme, a corporation dedicated to the development of the Gramme machine. In this role, he accompanied Gramme to
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in Paris, which hosted the first international congress of electricians; in response, the French government inducted him into the
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Hippostory: L'Exposition internationale d'Électricité
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Dijon
Hyères
electrical engineer
Zénobe Gramme
Gramme machine
electrical generator
dynamo
electrical wires
Franco-Prussian War
cannons
Weltausstellung 1873 Wien
Exposition internationale d'Électricité
Légion d'honneur
Cimetière du Montparnasse
Grandes figures gadzarts / Fontaine
Hippostory: L'experience 1873
Hippostory: L'Exposition internationale d'Électricité
"Hippostory: Sa mort"
the original
Lycée Hippolyte Fontaine
Categories
1833 births
1910 deaths
Engineers from Dijon
Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni
Officers of the Legion of Honour
French electrical engineers

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