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About Floris Nollet
- Floris Nollet (16 September 1794 – 11 January 1853) was a Belgian physicist, engineer, inventor. Nollet was a grandnephew of Jean-Antoine Nollet.
- He became professor of physics at the École Militaire in Brussels.
- He also founded the British-French company Société de l'Alliance. Nollet designed plans for large-scale generators for the galvanization industry, for limelight, and for electric arcs, an improvement on the work of Hippolyte Pixii.
- His magneto-electric generator design for decomposing water by electrolysis using steam power was patented in England in 1850.
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