BELGIUM STAMPS COLLECTION
Year of issue 1955
Charles V exhibition, Date of issue 25th March 1955
Birth centenary of Emile Verhaeren -Poet, Date of issue 25th March 1955
Textile congress in Bruxelles, Date of issue 11th May 1955
Sculpture exhibition, Date of issue 10th July 1955
Liege exhibition, Date of issue 10th September 1955
Belgian Inventors, Date of issue 22nd October 1955
Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist, industrialist, and philanthropist
J.J. Dony (1759–1819) – Belgian inventor who developed the industrial process for producing zinc
Egide Walschaerts (1820–1901) – Locomotive engineer who invented the Walschaerts valve gear used in steam engines
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944) – Chemist who created Bakelite, the first commercially produced plastic
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900) – Engineer and inventor of the first practical internal combustion engine
Emile Fourcault (1862–1919) and Edouard Gobbe (1849–1915) – Developers of the Fourcault process, an industrial method for making sheet glass
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