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French Engineer, mechanics, laborer inventor and gunsmith. Edme Régnier was an apprentice at a Dijon gunsmith.
Edme Régnier was an apprentice at a Dijon gunsmith. With the Revolution, Regnier moved to Paris. On the recommendation of a fellow Lazare Carnot, the Public salvation Committee confers him responsibility for the general administration of portable weapons. Regnier inventions were varied. First we must discuss about his love for "gadget"! Gun lantern "for those in the case of travel by car the night" gun alarm clock and pocket lighters defensive gun. But his richest production was for different measurement instruments: thermometers, "potamometer" and "reumameter" to measure the flow of river water, "blenometer" to adjust the springs release deck of guns, portable anemometer, thermometer, and finally various types of dynamometers, to estimate the strength of the fire pump, to measure the silk resistance. And a dynamometer used to evaluate the muscle strength of a man and animal.
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Schreibweisen:
REGNIER, Edmé
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Geschichte
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* 1751
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Semur-en-Auxois
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geboren
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1783
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Invention of a "meridian cannon and bell music", presented to Louis XVI.
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1784
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Invention of a spinning machine and iron wire ropes.
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1793
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Paris
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Inspector of portable firearms production under the salvation committee.
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1793 - 1816
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Paris
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First director of the Musée d'Artillerie in the cloister of the Church of Saint Thomas d'Asquin.
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1798
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Description of the dynamometer in the Polytechnique school journal (T. II, prairial an VI, pp. 160-172).
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1798
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Invention of the Regnier dynamometer.
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1800
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Explanatory Memorandum: The use of the dynamometer was ordained for the artillery schools, from April to May indicating that "many medical schools are now using it for the students instruction".
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27.01.1817
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Construction of a new paper tighter shaped like a furniture and secret.
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1820
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Receive the title of "Knight" under the Restoration.
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† 1825
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Paris
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