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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES
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HENRI LAURENT DUPUY DE LOME (1816-1885)
  , French
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naval architect, the son of a retired naval officer, was born at Ploemeur, near
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Lorient, on the 15th of
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October 1816 . He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1835, and in 1842 was sent to England to study and report on iron
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ship-
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building . Acting on his report, which was published in 1844, the government built their first iron vessels under his supervision . He planned and built the steam
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line-of-
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battle ship "
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Napoleon " (1848-1852), and devised the method of altering sailing
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ships of the line into steamers, which was afterwards extensively practised in both France and England . He also showed the practicability of armouring the sides of a ship, and the
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frigate " Gloire " gave a very clear demonstration of his views . It was the beginning of the
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great change in the construction of ships of war which has been going on ever since . In 1857 Dupuy de Lome was appointed " chef de la direction du materiel," at Paris; and in 1861, " inspecteur general du materiel de la marine." In 1866 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences . At the beginning of the Franco-German War he was appointed a member of the committee of defence, and during the siege of Paris occupied himself with planning a steer-able
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balloon, for carrying out which he was given a credit of 40,000 fr.; but the balloon was not ready till a few days before the capitulation . The experiments that wereafterwardsmadewith it did not prove entirely satisfactory . In 1875 he was busy over a scheme for embarking a railway train at
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Calais, and exhibited plans of the improved harbour and
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models of the " bateaux porte-trains " to the Academy of Sciences in
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July . In 1877 he was elected a senator for
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life . He received the
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cross of the Legion of Honour in 1845, was made a
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commander in 1858, and
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grand officer in December 1863 .

He died at Paris on the 1st of

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February 1885 .

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