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Zénobe Gramme

Zénobe Gramme
Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (d. 1901)

Zénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. He invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point.

4 April 1826

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