Education
École Polytechnique.
École Polytechnique.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 he started work on the design of airships at the French army aeronautical department. This was the first time that a flying machine made a fight which returned to the place of take-official lieutenant was later exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1889).
He also proposed a now widely used system of preferred numbers that was later named after him and became international standard International Organization for Standardization 3.
lieutenant helped the French army to reduce the number of different balloon ropes kept on inventory from 425 to 17. Colonel Renard invented the Renard first developed by Darracq and displayed by them in 1903 later developed in England by Daimler.
The leading motor unit having generated the power transmits it by a continuous shaft united between the carriages by a universal joint to the driving wheels of each carriage. These, each carriage being six-wheeled, are the central pair and are shod with iron, the resulting road-shock being taken by the springs and rubber tyres on the other wheels.
Each vehicle is steered by its predecessor through a series of rods and linkages and when a Renard train rounds a corner each vehicle follows precisely in the track of its predecessor.
They were powered by a 16.1 litre Daimler engine and the last carriage always cut the corner
Depressed by the French governments"s refusal to fund his experiments and the rejection of his candidacy for membership of the French des Sciences he committed suicide in April 1905.