Egide Walschaerts
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Egide Walschaerts (21 January 1820 – 18 February 1901) was a Belgian mechanical engineer, best known as the inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear used in steam locomotives. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium. In 1844 he developed a new type of valve gear for steam engines. See Walschaerts Valve Gear.
1879 Description of a horizontal engine at the Paris Exposition for driving the machinery in the Belgian Section. 'It was exhibited by its maker, M. E. Walschaerts, of Brussels, whose name is well known in this country in connexion with his system of locomotive valve gear, and upon whose patent it was constructed. ....'[1]
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