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Events From November 10th
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  • August Horch

    Monday 12th October 1868 Born on this day, August Horch, German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

    October 12, 1868
  • Armand Peugeot

    Armand Peugeot

    Monday 26th March 1849 Born on this day, Armand Peugeot, French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. From 1865, Armand and his cousin Eugène[1] became involved with the running of the company, then called Peugeot Frères Aînés. They took it into cycle manufacture in 1882, and exhibited…

    March 26, 1849
  • Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg since 1839)

    Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg since 1839)

    Saturday 12th January 1822 Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg since 1839). He developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine, a single-cylinder two-stroke engine which burnt a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a “jumping spark” ignition system…

    January 12, 1822
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