Joseph Farcot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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engineer and industrialist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Joseph Farcot
- 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 a prolific inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the servomechanism, where a feedback loop helps control a machine. The invention lets one helmsman control a ship's rudder weighing several tons.
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