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    Jean Joseph Léon Farcot (23 June 1824 – 19 March 1908) was a French engineer and industrialist whose factories employed up to 700 workers. He was also...
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  • Marie-Joseph Farcot (1798–1875), French engineer, inventor and manufacturer, working mainly with steam engines, father of Joseph Farcot Joseph Farcot (1824–1908)...
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  • Marie-Joseph-Denis Farcot (1798–1875) was a French engineer, inventor and manufacturer, working mainly with steam engines. His son, Joseph Farcot, was...
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  • pioneer. His patented design was used on the SS Great Eastern in 1866. Joseph Farcot may deserve equal credit for the feedback concept, with several patents...
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    rudder with feedback mechanism designed in 1866 by John McFarlane Gray. Joseph Farcot coined the word servo in 1873 to describe steam-powered steering systems...
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    jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith (d. 1868) Joseph Chinn, American politician (d. 1840) Marie-Joseph Farcot, French engineer (d. 1875) Therese Grob, Austrian...
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  • Marie Fabianová (1872–1943), Czech mathematician and teacher Marie-Joseph Farcot (1798–1875), French engineer, inventor and manufacturer Marie Farge...
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    hammer design several years before Nasmyth's patent expired. Marie-Joseph Farcot of Paris proposed a number of improvements including an arrangement...
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  • invented a servomechanism, a name coined by the French engineer Joseph Farcot. Farcot must be given equal credit for the concept, which he had developed...
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    archeology, history, architecture, and technology." The presentation of Joseph Farcot's steam engine, that had already won a prize in 1878. Expenses: 41,500...
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