Louis F. Ragot

Place: Paris

Biography:

Louis F. Ragot was a French-American artist, sculptor, and inventor. He was born in Paris and exhibited at the Salon of 1882 of the Académie des Beau-Arts, Paris. Ragot was the pupil of Louis Auguste Hiolin, a French bronze sculptor. He emigrated from France to the United States with his family in 1894 and set up shop in Milford, Pennsylvania. Ragot was also an inventor and patented a new design rotary internal combustion engine (patent 1302709, May 6, 1919) as well as an early airplane which he built around the end of 1910 in Milford and exhibited in NYC. He continued to produce medals, including a tribute to Russian author Tolstoi , an official inaugural medal of President Woodrow Wilson from 1917.