SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François (1798 - 1878)

French engineer optician.

Jean-Baptiste Soleil learned his craft while working under the engineers Hareing and Palmer. From 1823 to 1827 he was intimately associated with the work of Fresnel. Jean-Baptiste Soleil directed the construction of the annular lenses and the mechanism had designed for use in lighthouses. Soleil’s first lens was made under the direction of Fresnel and was based on his theory. In 1841 he was presented to the French Academy of Sciences by his son, Henri. A notable piece of apparatus constructed by Soleil: the diffraction bench was intended for use in public demonstrations of interference and diffraction phenomena with either sunlight or lamplight. Jean-Baptiste Soleil produced and sold a wide variety of optical instruments. His inventions included an apparatus for measuring the interaxial angle in biaxial crystals and an improved model of Biot’s saccharimeter. In 1849 he retired from business and was succeeded by his son-in-law and former apprentice Jules Duboscq. In November 1850 Soleil was named chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Soleil received a number of exhibition awards, including a gold medal in 1849; and the physical optics section of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was devoted solely to the products and inventions of Duboscq and Soleil. This exhibition won the highest award: a council medal.

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SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François

Curriculum vitae

* 1798		nato
1819	Paris	Fondation de la maison Soleil, située au 21, rue de l'Odéon à Paris, spécialisée dans la fabrication des instruments d'optique dont les destinataires sont les grands savants de l'époque Fresnel, Arago, Foucault, Babinet.
1841		Invention du saccharimètre Soleil.
1843		Fabrication de l'héliostat de Jean Thiébault Silbermann.
1849		La maison fut divisée en deux branches confiées à Henri Soleil, fils du fondateur, et Jules Duboscq, son gendre. La branche Soleil fut continuée par Laurent est maintenant connu sous le nom de Jobin Yvon.
1852		L'atelier Soleil est racheté par Louis Sautter qui fut fabricant de lentilles de Fresnel pour les phares et fonde l'entreprise Sautter et Cie, puis Sautter-Lemonnier et Cie, puis Sautter-Harlé.
† 1878		morto
1883		La branche Duboscq fut ensuite renommé Duboscq Pellin puis Pellin en 1886.

Collections

		Rivoluzione Industriale, dal 1780 al 1850
		Industrializzazione, dal 1850 al 1920

Letteratura

	Note sur perfectionnement apporté au pointage du saccharimètre. Autore: SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François Pubblicato: 1847
	Note sur la structure et la propriété rotatoire du quartz cristallisé Autore: SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François Pubblicato: 1845
	Notice sur I’horloge polaire de M. Wheatstone, construite et perfectionnée par M. Soleil Autore: SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François Pubblicato: 1849
	Note sur un nouveau caractère distinctif entre les cristaux agrave un axe, positifs et négatifs Autore: SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François Pubblicato: 1854

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=24561004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24561004.html

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SOLEIL, Jean-Baptiste François (1798 - 1878)