History
In 1930, René Moineau, a pioneer of aviation, while inventing a compressor for jet engines, discovered that this principle could also work as a pumping system. The University of Paris awarded René Moineau a doctorate of science for his thesis on “the new capsulism”. His pioneering dissertation laid the groundwork for the Progressing Cavity Pump.
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