Louis-Georges Mulot
French engineer
Louis-Georges Mulot (English: myoo-LOH, French: [lwi ʒɔʁʒ mylo]; 14 September 1792, Épinay-sur-Seine - 11 April 1872, Paris) was a French engineer and entrepreneur. He helped create numerous artesian wells in Paris and was the founder of the Compagnie des mines de Dourges; one of the first extensions of the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin.
Biography
His father was a locksmith; originally from Vaubexy. After inheriting his father's tools, he proved to be very skillful with his hands; mending shotguns and clocks as well as locks. He also invented a device to improve the process of grating potatoes into potato starch and repaired a steamboat that had been stranded on the Seine.
In 1823, he was called to Enghien-les-Bains to repair the tools of workers who were digging an artesian well. He watched them at work and learned the process. Upon returning home, he created his own tools and dug his first well on the property of the Marquise de Grollier, an artist who specialized in flower painting. He then dug similar wells in Tours, Elbeuf and Saint-Gratien.
In 1834, at the suggestion of François Arago, a noted scientist who was serving as the Conseil Général of the Seine, and Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury, an engineer, he undertook his first well drilling project in Paris, in the courtyard of the Abattoirs de Grenelle.
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