![]() He returned to the United States in 1856 with his wife Eulalie, moved in Philadelphia and started to work on new submarines for the US Navy. In 1848, he emigrated to the United-States and tried to establish a sawmill on the bank of the Susquehanna River, but returned to France in 1851. In the same year, he joined the executive board of a railway company and filed a new patent for a technology meant to help trains to climb mountains. From that time, he started to use the name "Brutus de Villeroi". In 1845, Villeroi was granted a knighthood by the assumed prince Alexandre-André de Gonzaga-Mantova, a swindler who sold fake decorations. Some author's suggested that Villeroi was Jules Verne's teacher in Nantes in 1842, but there no proof about it and no clue indicates that Villeroi had left Paris. The next year, he set up in Paris as an engineer and got a patent for a new kind of printing press (the presse "typolithographique"). ![]() In 1832, he constructed his first submarine and demonstrated its skills in the Atlantic Ocean, near Noirmoutier. In 1821, he filed a patent for his first invention, the "guitare-harmonique" (harmonic-guitar). In the 1820, he taught flute, horn, guitar, draughtsmanship and mathematics in Nantes, Tréguier (1821) and Saint-Brieuc (1823). īrutus began his career as a music and mathematics teacher. The family moved to Nantes in 1799, after the closing of the printing house in which his father worked. Brutus de Villeroi (1794 – 1874) was a French engineer of the 19th century, born Brutus Amédée Villeroi (he added the aristocratic "de" in his later years) in the city of Tours and soon moved to Nantes, who developed some of the first operational submarines, and the first submarine of the United States Navy, the Alligator, in 1862.īrutus Amédée Villeroi was the son of François Villeroi, a poet and a printer in Tours (France).
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