Hilaire de chardonnet biography of alberta

also known asLouis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Grange, Count de Chardonnet

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Hilaire de Chardonnet was a French engineer and industrialist.

He was the inventor of artificial silk.

Background

Chardonnet was born on May 1, 1839, in Besançon, France.

Education

Chardonnet was trained as a civil engineer and completed scientific studies under Louis Pasteur at the École Polytechnique.

Career

Although Chardonnet was not the first to think of the possibility of making “artificial silk,” he was the pioneer of the technology necessary to establish the industry.

The influences that prepared him for this, his most important contribution to science and technology, were his training as an engineer at the École Polytechnique and the work of his illustrious fellow townsman Louis Pasteur.

In particular, Pasteur’s preoccupation at one time with a disease of the silk