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    Schneider et Compagnie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the french town of Le Creusot, was a historic French iron and steel-mill...
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    Adolphe and Joseph-Eugene Schneider took over an iron foundry in Le Creusot, France. Two years later, they founded Schneider-Creusot, the company that would...
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    Adolphe Schneider (23 October 1802 – 3 August 1845) was a French financier and industrialist who developed a major metalworking enterprise at Le Creusot, the...
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    university centre. In 1836, iron ore mines and forges around Le Creusot were bought by Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène. They developed a business in steel...
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    company that manufactured machinery and vehicles. A subsidiary of Schneider-Creusot, Somua was based in Saint-Ouen, a suburb of Paris. In 1930 Somua introduced...
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  • artillery piece Creusot steam hammer 10233 Le Creusot, an asteroid Gare du Creusot TGV, railway station Creusot Loire Mk F3 and Creusot Loire Mk 61, armoured...
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  • industry. Featured companies include DuPont, Colt, Remington, Vickers, Schneider-Creusot, Krupp, and Škoda Works. Individuals include Hiram Maxim and Basil...
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    stepsons from his marriage to Schneider (younger sister of novelist Dominique Schneidre and heiress to the Schneider-Creusot steel and armaments firm) as...
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    statue of Eugène Schneider in Le Creusot) "Le Creusot" (in French). Retrieved 2008-01-28. Eugène, Joseph Schneider – Assemblée. Robert & Cougny 1889...
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  • of record players Schneider Computer Division, a brand of Amstrad CPC in association with Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG Schneider-Creusot, a historic French...
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    Henri Schneider was born in Le Creusot, rural France. His father, Eugène Schneider, had co-founded Schneider-Creusot with his uncle, Adolphe Schneider, in...
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    The Creusot steam hammer is a giant steam hammer built in 1877 by Schneider and Co. in the French industrial town of Le Creusot. With the ability to deliver...
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    cm Tir Rapide Schneider-Canet-du-Bocage was a self-contained motorized howitzer system built by the French arms company Schneider-Creusot before the First...
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    The Obusier de 120 mm C mle 1897 Schneider-Canet was a howitzer built by the French arms company Schneider-Creusot and used by Serbia during the Balkan...
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    industrialist, head of Schneider-Creusot, politician and inventor. In 1923, he was awarded the John Fritz Medal. Eugène Schneider was born on October 29...
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    her in that role she was scrapped in 1977. 1932–1940: Four 130 mm Schneider-Creusot guns (4x1) Two 40 mm Vickers-Armstrongs AA cannons (2x1) Four 13,2 mm...
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  • (British made) Schneider 155mm C M1917 field howitzer (French made) Schneider-Canet 75mm M1910 mountain cannon (French made) Schneider-Creusot 75mm M1906...
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    120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun was a heavy artillery piece manufactured by the French company Schneider-Creusot. It was a slow firing gun without...
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    pressurize them hydraulically and coined the term "autofrettage". In 1913, Schneider-Creusot made a 14 cm L/50 naval gun by such a method and applied for a patent...
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  • Commercial. Creusot-Loire went into insolvency in 1984 and subsequently left the Schneider group's scope. Between 1986 and 1992, much of Jeumont-Schneider was...
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    vertical, three-cylinder triple expansion engines manufactured by Schneider-Creusot; each engine drove a single screw, with steam supplied by twenty-four...
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    give to the Krupp's factory in Essen to French arms manufacturer Schneider-Creusot. Another incident occurred on his journey to the funeral of his second...
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    mle 1913. The wz. 29 originated from a French design produced by Schneider-Creusot for the arms export market. The wz. 29 differed from the mle 1913...
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    artillery engineer working for the Schneider-Creusot company and the carriages were built in 1897. The Peigné-Canet-Schneider carriages are believed to be the...
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    The Cannone da 76/17 S modello 12 was a landing gun designed by Schneider-Creusot in France and built under license by Gio. Ansaldo & C. in Italy that...
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    systems by all major industrial powers. The major armament firms were Schneider-Creusot (based in France), Škoda Works (Czechoslovakia), and Vickers (Great...
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    designs. The M1909 and M1910 were designed by the French company Schneider-Creusot and were produced in large numbers under license at the Putilov and...
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    axis (a pretty conventional hydropneumatic mechanism was used there by Schneider), but at the same time the cradle and the upper carriage moved back and...
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    75 modele 1912 Schneider was a French World War I piece of 75 mm artillery, designed and manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot. It entered service...
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    dropped them." In 1942, the Royal Air Force (RAF) attempted to bomb the Schneider-Creusot works at Lyon, which was one of France's largest arms factories. The...
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