Louis-Nicolas Robert
Deceased Person
1761 – 1828
Who was Louis-Nicolas Robert?
Louis-Nicolas Robert was a French soldier and mechanical engineer, who is credited with a paper-making invention that became the blueprint of the Fourdrinier machine.
In 1799, Robert patented the first machine to produce 'continuous paper'. After a series of legal and financial quarrels with Saint-Léger Didot, Robert lost control of his patent. The machine was then shipped out of post-revolutionary France and further developed in England. Robert's invention became the core of the Fourdrinier machine, the basis for modern papermaking. He eventually became a school-teacher and died in penury.
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- Born
- Dec 2, 1761
Saint-Eustache, Paris - Died
- Aug 8, 1828
Vernouillet, Eure-et-Loir
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on July 23, 2013
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