Philippe Henri Girard

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Girard, Philippe Henri

Born Feb. 1, 1775, in Lourmarin, Provence; died Aug. 26, 1845, in Paris. French inventor. In 1810 he proposed a wet flax-spinning system. After an unsuccessful attempt to set up a flax-spinning industry in his native country, he went to Austria (1815) and then to Russia (1826). New Warsaw he founded a linen mill (about 1830). The city of Żyrardów in Poland is named after him.

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Tseitlin, E. A. Tekhnicheskii perevorot v Vnopriadenii i nachalo mashinnogo proizvodstva I’nianoi priazhi v Rossii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.

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