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EARLY ADOPTER: Portrait of Gustave Trouvé from Histoire d’un Inventeur by Georges Barral, one of several original texts at The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life, in Minneapolis.
Trouvé Magic
Gustave Trouvé was like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Igor Sikorsky rolled into one.
Talking with makers in the 21st century, you might find the conversation turning to alternative energy, electric vehicles, medical breakthroughs, and special effects. These subjects would be déjà vu to Gustave Trouvé, a French inventor born in 1839, who created the first electric vehicle and outboard boat motor, the most-used military telegraph, endoscopes that stirred controversy and revolutionized medicine, and theatrical ...
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