Aleksandr Loran

1849 (age 62)

Kishinyov, Russian Empire (now in Moldavia

After graduating from the Saint St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, he continued his education in Paris, where he studied chemistry. Returning to Russia, Loran became a teacher in a school in Baku, which was the main center of the Russian oil industry at that time. Impressed by the terrible and hardly extinguishable oil fires that he had seen there, Loran tried to find such a liquid substance that could deal effectively with the problem. So he invented fire fighting foam, which was successfully tested in several experiments in 1902-1903. In 1904 Loran patented his invention, and developed the first foam extinguisher the same year. Subsequently he founded a company called Eurica, based in Saint St. Petersburg, and started to sell his fire extinguishers under that brand.

Aleksandr Loran

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He was born in 1849 in Kishinyov in the Russian Empire, now in Moldavia.

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After graduating from the Saint St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, he continued his education in Paris, where he studied chemistry. Returning to Russia, Loran became a teacher in a school in Baku, which was the main center of the Russian oil industry at that time. Impressed by the terrible and hardly extinguishable oil fires that he had seen there, Loran tried to find such a liquid substance that could deal effectively with the problem.

So he invented fire fighting foam, which was successfully tested in several experiments in 1902-1903.

In 1904 Loran patented his invention, and developed the first foam extinguisher the same year. Subsequently he founded a company called Eurica, based in Saint St. Petersburg, and started to sell his fire extinguishers under that brand.

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