automatic telegraph device that could send information in written form. This device was of great value during the Franco-Prussian War. He also installed an improved version of his engine in a 12 meter long boat for a Mr. Dalloz who used it on the Seine for two years. French citizenship Lenoir was granted French citizenship in 1870 for assistance during the Franco-Prussian War, and awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1881 (not for the engine, but for developments in telegraphy). Lenoir's later years were impoverished despite his engine's relative success. Honors On 16 July 1900, not long before his death, Lenoir received an award from the ACF (Automobile Club de France), which was a vermeil plate with the inscription, "In recognition of his great merits as an inventor of the gas engine and builder of the first car in the world." Lenoir Rock in Antarctica is not named after him, but after Étienne Lenoir. Lenoir died in La Varenne-Sainte-Hilaire on 4 August 1900. See also Hippomobile History of the internal combustion engine Lenoir cycle Timeline of hydrogen technologies References Sources G.N. Georgano Cars: Early and Vintage 1886–1930. London: Grange-Universal, 1990 (reprints AB Nordbok 1985 edition). . Wise, David Burgess, "Lenoir: The Motoring Pioneer" in Ward, Ian, executive editor. The World of Automobiles, p. 1181–2. London: Orbis Publishing, 1974. External links image of Lenoir History of the Motor Vehicle at newreg.co.uk 1822 births 1900 deaths 19th-century Belgian engineers 19th-century Belgian inventors 19th-century French inventors French automotive pioneers People associated with the internal combustion engine