Bunten
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Nom
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Bunten
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Couverture temporelle
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1/2 19th century
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Biographie
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A specialist maker of instruments in glass for which he had already acquired a high reputation several years before the 1823 Exhibition (1). Made standard thermometers and other glass-based registering instruments. A psychosomètre, a de Saussure-type hygrometer and a barometer are known (2). By 1827 he had added photometers and Daniel's hygrometer to his range, and had made an important improvement to Gay-Lussac's portable barometer (3). By the time of the 1834 exhibition he had added a thermétrographe for measuring deep sea temperatures, marine and mountain barometers (4). Of his portable siphon barometer the author of the 1839 report wrote 'there is not a single expedition that has left France which was not supplied with several of these instruments, as light as they are precise'.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Hericart de Thury 324.
2 The first two instruments are dated respectiv ely 1844 and 1845. Both are in the Lycée Hoche, Versailles. The barometer was in the Koelliker collection.
3 de Thury & Migneron II, 378; Middleton 142 & 144. Institut de France. Académie Royale des Sciences, 'Rapport sur un baromêtre présenté par M. Bunten... extrait du procès verbal de la séance du lundi 14 avril 1828'. Paris: 1828.
4 Dupin 254-5;
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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30, quai Pelletier Paris Azur 1824; Parfait Indicateur, 1831; Azur 1837, Almanach des commerçants 1839, 693.
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26, Quai Pelletier Paris de Thury & Migneron 324, Almanach du Commerce
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Quai de G Paris de Thury & Migneron II 378
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28, quai Pelletier Paris Almanach du Commerce
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30 et 32, quai Pelletier Paris Almanach du Commerce
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1823 Paris National Mention honorable
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1827 Paris Exposition nationale Bronze medal
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1834 Paris Exposition nationale Silver medal
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1839 Paris Exposition nationale Silver medal
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1844 Paris Industrie Nationale Silver medal
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Relation
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Mossy predecessor
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Identifiant
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688
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