Julien Dulait

Belgian inventor brilliant and industrial, born with Ghent (Belgium) in 1855 and deceased in 1926. Civil engineer of the mines, it Co-founds the Company Electricity and Hydraulics, of which he was chief administrator. He made benefit the company from his inventions and improvements, of which a dynamo, a pandynamometer and the " Dulait" regulator;. Its company carried out several work of scale in Belgium and abroad, whose first Belgian powerplant with Charleroi, the central factory of lighting of the town of Ostend, etc It built and improved special electric engines, electric pomps, apparatuses for the perforation of the mining galleries, the tunnels, aqueducts, etc It was attacked, with its company, being studied of the engine of tram and installed the electrical equipment of many lines in Belgium (Ostend-littoral) and France (Dijon). Another invention, in collaboration, crowned by the Price Ferraris: tangential traction, solving the problems of the traction of the railroads at high speed and long distances. It started at the end of the 19th century a technical collaboration with Russia, which did not develop unfortunately because of the Russian industrial crisis. It still took part in the creation of a.C.E.C., the Workshops of Electrical engineering of Charleroi, vast industrial empire which included Electricité and Hydraulics, in 1904 and was administrator-delegate. Lastly, it founded the first additional course of electricity in 1883 at the industrial school of Charleroi.

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