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3 unusual facts about Édouard Biot


Édouard Biot

When this project was completed in 1833, he decided to enjoy the independence he had gained to study the Chinese language and literature.

In 1825 and 1826, he accompanied his father as an assistant on scientific expeditions to Italy, Illyria and Spain.

Biot translated Charles Babbage's On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture into French and was the author of one of the earliest works on the railways, the Manuel du constructeur des chemins de fer (Manual of Railway Construction), published in 1834.



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