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Automotive News Europe, January, 2004
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Marquis Albert de Dion (1856-1946)
The automobile was invented in Germany, but the French pioneered its use and development as a social icon. One person behind both phenomena was Albert, marquis de Dion.
The visionary industrialist, together with his engineering partner Georges Bouton, began producing self-propelled steam vehicles in 1882. Their company patented a light rear axle, which was named after de Dion, to improve the ride of the vehicles.
A patent for a high-speed single-cylinder gasoline engine was filed in 1890; production started five years later.
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