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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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