In article <lqnv15ps51dutjdf85rhigoa7f89drcj2r@4ax.com>,
"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote:
> Andre and Edouard Michelin
>
> Andre Michelin was born in 1853, After finishing his engineering
> degree at the Paris Central School in 1877, he entered art school as
> an architecture student. Andre and Edouard MichelinHe later spent five
> years in the cartography department of the Ministry of the Interior,
> then set up a metal framework business in Paris.
>
> His brother, Edouard Michelin, was, born in 1859. He studied at the
> Paris School of Art. In 1889, he left his arts career to manage a
> company founded by his grandfather, Aristide Barbier, and his cousin
> Nicolas Edouard Daubree. The company had been founded in 1832 as a
> farm machinery and pump manufacturing business. They soon became
> interested in the industrial possibilities of vulcanized rubber, which
> they used in their factory for seals, belts, calves, and pipes.
>
> When Edouard Michelin became manager of the company, assisted by his
> older brother, he changed its name to the Michelin Company.
>
> The popular mascot, the Michelin Man, was also created by the Michelin
> brothers. During a visit to the 1894 International Fair in Lyon, they
> found themselves in front of a stack of tires. The shape of the stack
> reminded them of a man, and thus the mascot was born. The Michelin
> Man's name is Bidenbum, by the way, and the first Bidenbum was drawn
> by a poster artist named O'Galop in 1898.
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