Dupuyde

Dupuyde Lome, Stanislas Charles Henri Laurent, French naval engineer, was born in 1816 at Ploemeur, near Lorient. Between 1848 and 1852 he built the first screw line-of-battle ship, the Napoleon, and in 1859 the first armour-plated battleship, the (rloire. He had in the meantime been appointed inspector-general of the navy. In his later life he conducted many interesting aeronautical experiments, and invented a balloon which possessed a certain extent of steering-power. His death occurred in 1885:.