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Egide Walschaerts
* 1820 in Mechelen/Belgium
+ 1901 in St. Gilles/Brussels
Egide Walschaerts was a Belgian mechanical engineer,
best known as the inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear for use
in steam locomotives
to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons.
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