Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier
Charles -Nicolas Peaucellier ( born June 16, 1832 in Saarlouis, † 1913 in Paris) was a graduate of the École polytechnique and made a career in the French Army, 1888 he was promoted to général de division.
Life
The doctor's son Pierre André Peaucellier and the pharmacist 's daughter Catherine Bassigny had four siblings. He embarked on a military career. As captain, he led a pioneer corps in Toul, was then commandant of Lyon and then again in Toul, to serve as a Grand Officer and a member of the General Staff in a technical elite. He married in 1868 the 25 - year-old Marie -Hélène Defrance from an important family of industrialists in Dillingen. She died in 1872 early in the year of birth of their daughter, Jeanne; probably in childbirth. In 1876, he married the 24 - year-old Marie -Thérèse de Sthème Jubecourt from Waller endeavor. From this marriage two children were born. The older André Peauccellier fell as Capitaine the age of 37 in the First World War at the Battle " Mesnil -le- Hurrus ". The younger, born in 1882, Felix Guy Marie Maxime became an engineer. His mother died six days after his birth, probably in childbirth. 1889 Peaucellier married his third wife Gabriele de Trévélec. As Peaucellier died, he was living in Paris at the request of his children to Dillingen in the Defrance tomb, the tomb of his first wife, reburied in death year. The perceived by the public reburial was a burial in presence of a large congregation of mourners, representatives of the Corps crew and Dillinger Hütte with military honors. In 1929 he was exhumed and reburied a second time with his first wife Marie -Hélène Defrance to Wallerfangen. The grave plates for his first son, himself, his first wife and his father bear the following inscriptions:
- Ici repose André Peaucellier Capitaine au 5me Dragon tombé glorieux Mesnil -le- le 28 Février 1915 Hurrus à l' age de 37 ans
- Ici repose Charles N. Peaucellier Général de Division Grand Officier à la Légion d' Honneur né le 16 Juin 1832 à Sarrelouis mort à Paris le 4 Oct. 1919
- Ici repose Peaucellier Marie née le 21 Février 1872 décédé Defrance à l'age de 28 ans
- A la mémoire de Docteur en médecine Pierre André Peaucellier né à Metz le 6 Juillet 1792 à mort Sarrelouis
Curiously, the 28ste January on the grave stone of Peaucellier family for his son André the February 28ste than death, on the grave stone of Sthème de JUBECOURT family specified.
Invention
He became famous by the eponymous Inversor of Peaucellier, he brought in 1864 to the public.
Its construction is composed of four equal length, connected with joints to a diamond rods which are guided by two long, mounted on opposite joints rods in an external point.
This equipment makes it possible to transform a movement on a ( part - ) circle line in a linear movement. In the dictionary of art, the invention undergoes the following assessment:
"They kept it for a long time impossible that by a hinge mechanism, ie one in which each member takes against an adjacent a circular motion, can be generated in a straight line, up from Peaucellier first of ... joint mechanism was invented by an absolute straight guide is effected. "
Although in theory awesome, pass through the many joints and stresses in these problems in practice on.
Honors
" Gran - Officier de la Légion d' Honneur "