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Frédéric Japy (1749–1813), French watchmaker and manufacturer, Beaucourt, ébauche. Johann Gottfried Sechting (1749–1814), German clockmaker, student of Hahn, astronomical clock. Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829), English clock and chronometer maker, London, marine chronometer.
He was successively an engineer at the Japy Frères (1948–50), Strafor-Maroc (1950–56), an independent consulting engineer (since 1957), advisor to the Chairman of L'Oreal (1960–90), founder (1971) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Novaction, Managing Director (1982) and Chairman (1992) of JB Consult and Advisor to the Chairman of ...
Watch manufacture was becoming streamlined; the Japy family of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, led the way in this, and soon afterwards the newborn American watch industry developed much new machinery, so that by 1865 the American Watch Company (afterwards known as Waltham) could turn out more than 50,000 reliable watches each year. This development ...
It was the first spacecraft in history designed to deliberately land on an asteroid and then take off again. The Hayabusa mission was the first to return an asteroid sample to Earth for analysis. 2006: 26 September: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi resigned and Shinzo Abe become 92nd Prime Minister of Japan. 2007: 29 July
The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu , moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto).
Japy (French pronunciation:) is a French surname. Notable people with this surname include: Notable people with this surname include: Arthur Japy Hepburn (1877–1964), American admiral
Marguerite Jeanne "Meg" Japy Steinheil, Baroness Abinger (16 April 1869 – 17 July 1954) was a French woman known for her many love affairs with important men. She was present at the death of President Félix Faure , who was rumoured to have died after having a seizure while allegedly having sex with her.