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235:'s crowning ceremony, at the beginning of December 1804. While the actual time of death seems to be December 1 at 10 am, there are no contemporary evidence to sustain the story: legal documents produced by the Archives Nationales upon the 150th jubilee of Lebon make it clear that neither the engineer's servant, Euphrasie Hubert, nor the justice practitioner committed to the post mortem inventory did mention any criminal circumstance, nor any wound on the body. Joseph Gaudry, Lebon's nephew and heir, only mentions family rumors in his 1856 writing. Lebon's correspondence during the last months of his life make it clear he had been suffering from illness and lack of medical assistance for weeks before his untimely death. 43: 151: 239:
burned mixture. This engine resembles an internal combustion engine, but the combustion actually takes place in a combustion chamber separated by mechanically controlled valves from the cylinders. This makes it a steam engine running on combustion products instead of on steam, or the piston equivalent of a gas turbine.
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thought. Certainly, all but possibly Hardenberg must have seen that it would give more room for optimization than the Street engine did. The reasons that it has never been used must be the obvious thermal and mechanical problems, such as heat loss from the combustion products to the containing structures.
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He also designed, though apparently did not build, a wood gas engine. (Not the first.) Like other early engines, it had no compression in its main cylinder. It has three mechanically connected cylinders, each double-acting, one to compress the air, one to compress the gas, and one driven by the
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and relatively high efficiency. This assumes, contrary to what Hardenberg seems to assume, that the combustion chamber would have been big enough to act as a pressure reservoir. Of course, one's place in history depends on what one does and writes more than on what one can be assumed to have
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and industrializing the extraction of lighting gas from wood. Following details published in readings for young people, Lebon has long been purported to have been assassinated on the eve of
266:. This was one of the first internal combustion engines. Although very inefficient, it would later be improved, as internal combustion is used in modern cars. 324:
Il fut assassiné, en 1804, à Paris, dans les Champs-Élysées, sans qu'on ait jamais pu découvrir ni son meurtrier ni le motif de cet assassinat.
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In 1801, Philippe Lebon invented an engine that improved on Robert Steele's design. It used coal gas ignited by an
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Hardenberg's analysis shows a theoretical efficiency and specific power much less than those of the earlier
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There is much confusion about his life and accomplishments. His main contributions were improvements to
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Louis Figuier, Les Merveilles de la science, tome 4, 748pp. (1870)
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This article is about the engineer. For the duke of Burgundy, see
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Philippe Lebon mourut assassiné, on ne sait par qui, en 1804.
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