Alfred Belpaire
Alfred Jules Belpaire was a Belgian locomotive engineer who invented the squaretopped Belpaire firebox in 1864.
Belpaire was born in Ostend, and first studied at the Athenaeum School in Antwerp. He then became a student at the cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris, France from 1837 to 1840 where he obtained a degree in mechanical engineering.
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