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Pages in category "French clockmakers" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Jules Andrade; B.
French clockmakers. Antoine Thiout the elder (Paris, 1692–1767) Abraham-Louis Breguet; Paris (1775–1823) ... List of clock manufacturers.
Pierre Le Roy (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ lə ʁwa]; 1717–1785) was a French clockmaker. He was the inventor of the detent escapement, the temperature-compensated balance and the isochronous balance spring. His developments are considered as the foundation of the modern precision clock.
William Frodsham (1779–1850), English clock and chronometer maker, London, chronometer. John Barwise (1780 or 1790–1842), English clock and chronometer maker. Josef Kossek (1780–1858), Czech clockmaker, Prague, precision pendulum clock.
A French Empire-style mantel clock is a type of elaborately decorated mantel clock that was made in France during the Napoleonic Empire (1804–1814/15). Timekeepers manufacturing during the Bourbon Restoration (1814/1815–1830) are also included within this art movement as they share similar subjects, decorative elements, shapes, and style.
(Antoine) Jean-Baptiste Delettrez (1 May 1816 – 25 May 1887) was a 19th-century French clockmaker.. Delettrez and Achille Brocot, son of the respected clockmaker Louis-Gabriel Brocot, established the clockmaking company "Brocot et Delettrez" in Paris on 20 October 1851, with premises at 62 Rue Charlot.
Louis Achille Brocot (pronounced "broco" [1]) (11 July 1817 – 19 January 1878) was a French clockmaker [2] and amateur mathematician. [3]He is known for his discovery (contemporaneously with, but independently of, German number theorist Moritz Stern) of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an ...
Julien Le Roy (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛ̃ lə ʁwa]; 1686-1759) was a major 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker. He was born in Tours in 1686, the scion of four previous generations of clockmakers. By the age of 13, had already made his first clock. In 1699, he moved to Paris for further training.