1. Henri Owen Tudor was a Luxembourgish engineer, inventor and industrialist.
27 Facts About Henri Tudor
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Henri Tudor was the son of John Thomas Tudor from Llanarth and Marie Loser from Rosport.
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Henri Tudor attended the primary and secondary school as a boarder at the municipal College of Chimay, and was a student from 1879 to 1883 at the Ecole Polytechnique, which was part of Brussels University.
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Henri Tudor was interested in electricity and especially in its storage.
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Henri Tudor developed an electric lighting system in his father's residence, the Irminenhof in Rosport, even before he had completed his engineering studies.
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Henri Tudor sought a permanent solution to these problems and manufactured himself a mould for casting large surface plates with which he built a lead-acid accumulator of his own design.
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The Tudor electrode stood out because of its unequalled reliability.
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We know from a reliable source that a Henri Tudor accumulator was put into service in October 1882 and that it ran without any interruption until December 1887.
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On 5 May 1891, Henri Tudor married Marie-Madeleine Pescatore of Bofferdange.
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In 1914, Henri Tudor began to suffer from a serious lead poisoning, which caused his death on 31 May 1928, aged 68.
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On 17 July 1886, Henri Tudor filed, in Luxembourg, patent No 711 "Further improvements to the electrodes of electric accumulators".
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The Plante layer is strengthened during the charging and discharging cycles: the final formation of the Henri Tudor plate happens during the actual use of the accumulator.
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The Henri Tudor electrode combines the advantages of the Plante and Faure methods while avoiding their respective disadvantages.
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On 30 April 1886, Henri Tudor signed a convention with the Town Council of Echternach concerning the replacement of the existing petroleum street by electric lighting.
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In 1887, Henri Tudor concluded a contract for electric lighting in the small town of Dolhain-Limbourg.
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Henri Tudor then installed two power stations, one in Brussels and one in Ghent.
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In May 1889,150 public or private stationary Henri Tudor batteries were in operation in Belgium and in the rest of Europe.
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The manufacture of Henri Tudor accumulators started in 1885 in the Rosport workshops, installed on the property known as Engelsbuerg.
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Henri Tudor moved to Hagen to provide technical assistance during the start-up of the factory.
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In 1891, it established a central research laboratory, where Henri Tudor acted as a scientific adviser.
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Henri Tudor took measures to make sure that his accumulator was manufactured and marketed in geographical areas where Adolph Muller had not been assigned any rights.
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Just when the Henri Tudor accumulator was about to embark on a spectacular upward trend on European markets, the Rosport factory, where it had all begun, was facing problems.
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In January 1901, Henri Tudor established in Brussels the Societe Anonyme "Accumulateurs Tudor".
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Henri Tudor contributed to the prestige of the Tudor trademark in far-distant lands, thanks to the excellent performance of his company from every point of view.
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The Henri Tudor companies were deeply affected by the First World War.
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In 1987, CRP Henri Tudor was founded in Luxembourg, and named in honor of Henri Owen Tudor and his devotion to research and innovation.
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Professor Wolfgang Schmid, from the University of Trier, and the engineers Ernest Reiter and Henri Tudor Werner were appointed as advisers.