Serpollet property in Culoz, France. The brothers, Henri and Leon, were born and worked in Culoz. They developed a precursor of the modern automobile car powered by an innovation in steam propulsion. (133)
Serpollet property in Culoz, France. The Serpollet Brothers were born and worked in Culoz: Henri, the oldest (1848-1915) and Léon, 11 years his junior (1859-1907), automobile pioneers, sons of Auguste Serpollet, craftsman carpenter in Culoz. Firstly, the Serpollet brothers succeeded in making a usable vehicle, the size of the individual, able to move on a road by its own means. The invention first came from Henri's desire to build an engine that could facilitate and speed up the work in his father's carpentry, research in which his younger brother Léon took part. It was Henri who had the idea of using steam and found the principle of the “instantaneous vaporization generator”, that is to say a machine without boiler using only vaporization. The two brothers built this machine in the village forge, from which came the first steam tricycle, in 1875.
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Location: Rue des Frères Serpollet, Culoz. France
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