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    Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, France, April 18, 1892 – Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a mechanical engineer who graduated from...
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    process at that time. In 1922, a French mechanical engineer named Eugene Jules Houdry and a French pharmacist named E. A. Prudhomme set up a laboratory...
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    decades later, a catalytic converter was patented by Eugene Houdry, a French mechanical engineer. Houdry was an expert in catalytic oil refining, having invented...
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    been synthesized as early as 1925 by Walter Noddack and others. 1937 Eugene Houdry develops a method of industrial scale catalytic cracking of petroleum...
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  • was development of catalytic cracking, a process he worked on with Eugene Houdry and others that made economically feasible the low-cost, mass production...
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    would be down to $0.042 per liter ($0.16/U.S. gal). In 1937, Eugene Houdry developed the Houdry process of catalytic cracking, which produced a high-octane...
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    Légion d'honneur. A much‐decorated French hero of the two world wars. Eugene J. Houdry - Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Vocal in opposing the government...
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  • powered by a gasturbine (Alouette II), in 1955 Catalytic converter by Eugene Houdry in 1956. Concorde by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...
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  • (d. 1937) 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970) 1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) 1897 – Ardito...
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    techniques for fluid catalytic cracking that would not infringe on Eugene Houdry's patents for fixed-bed cracking. During World War II, M. W. Kellogg...
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