fme_677656 - COLLECTION CARS - PILOTS AND INVENTIONS Médaille, Fernand Forest
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Type : Médaille, Fernand Forest
Date: 1979
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 168,90 g.
Edge : lisse + 1979 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, des traces de manipulation dans les champs. Peu d’usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : FERNAND FOREST - 1851-1914.
Obverse description : Buste de face, la tête tournée à gauche, signé : A. BOURROUX..
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1891.
Reverse description : Représentation d’un moteur à explosion.
Commentary
Pierre dit Fernand Forest (1851-1914) est un inventeur français, spécialiste de la propulsion. Il est notamment considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du moteur à explosion.
Historical background
COLLECTION CARS - PILOTS AND INVENTIONS
The automobile is a major technological invention that has considerably changed the societies of many countries during the 20th century. It originated in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, when technology gave pride of place to the steam engine as a source of energy, to then turn massively towards oil and the internal combustion engine, with the long-neglected competitor the electric motor.
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