Louis-François-Clement Breguet
Louis François Clément Breguet ( born December 22, 1804 in Paris, † October 27, 1883 ) was a French clockmaker, physicist and engineer. He invented some electric instruments and was instrumental in the development of electric telegraphy.
Life
Breguet was the grandson of Abraham Louis Breguet, a Swiss watchmaker and founder in 1775 of the famous watchmaker Breguet. In preparation for the subsequent takeover of the family business, he was educated in Switzerland. 1833 gave Antoine Louis Breguet ( 1776-1858 ), then the company to his son Louis.
When the French government decided on 23 November 1844 to build an experimental telegraph line along the railway line between Paris and Rouen, he was entrusted with the management.
1856 built Breguet watches a public facility in the center of Lyon and on 26 October 1866, he filed for a special wheel clock patent, which used a 25cm wide tuning fork for gait regulation. In addition to the construction of clocks and pocket watches Breguet was interest but also the study of electricity and its possible applications, and later the telegraph. Together with the physicist Antoine Masson 1841, he developed the first induction coil. Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff used this knowledge about ten years later, for the manufacture of its Rühmkorff - induction coils.
1870 Breguet finally decided to focus on the electricity and turning his back on the watchmaking. He handed over the management of the watchmaking company in the hands of his foreman Edward Brown, whose family company board yet another hundred years.
Since then, Breguet dealt exclusively with the Telegraph and the emerging telecommunications. With his knowledge of watch technology he developed various devices for telegraphy. Together with his son Antoine Breguet (1851-1882), he produced and expelled the first phones on the design, Bell on the French market.
Breguet's name is immortalized as one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.