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Louis Renault

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

French automotive engineer and industrialist who, with his brothers, founded the Renault car company in 1899, becoming one of the early pioneers of the French automobile industry and growing the firm into one of the country's major manufacturers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1877 1
Death Year
1944 1
Nationality
French 1
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Invented

Renault Voiturette, Vehicles
Additional Source Wikipedia: Louis RenaultEarly life

Operates

Renault, Networks and Operators
Source Wikipedia: Louis Renault
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1. Wikipedia: Louis Renault
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  • Introduction
    one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry
  • Operates: Renault, lead section
    Louis Renault...was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry.
  • Invented: Renault Voiturette, Early life
    He built his first car in 1898, hiring a pair of workmen to modify a used 3/4 hp (560 W) De Dion-Bouton cycle which featured a revolutionary universally jointed driveshaft and a three-speed gearbox with reverse, with the third gear in direct drive (which he patented a year later).
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