Chateau, E.
Contenu
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Nom
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Chateau, E.
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 19th century
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Société
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Chateu père & fils
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Biographie
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A firm of general mechanicians, E. Château having been 'Ingénieur des Arts-et-Manufactures while his son was trained at the Ecole Polytechnique. In c.1885 they succeeded the clockmakers Wagner and Collin (qv). Like their predecessors they also made metronomes, meters for electricity and other uses, lightning conductors, tide machines, tachymeters and other precision instruments to order. Their 1887 Catalogue contains astronomical regulators, sun-dials including a noon-gun and a Flechet-type 'chronomètre solaire', seconds counters, mercury-baths for astronomical observatories, current meters and fluviographs, self-registering rainfall metres, the stréphographe of L. J. Grfuey, machine speed. counters, depth and direction indicators, metronomes and lightning conductors. In 1897Aloÿs Verschaffel was in correspondence with them concerning the supply of paper rolls for his newly developed chronograph (1). In 1894 they restored the 16th century astronomical clock of Lyon cathedral as they had the 'Gros horloge' at Rouen two years earlier.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Letter of 12 October 1897. Château d'Abbadia, archives. Astronomy & Geodesy.
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Bibliographie
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Horloge astronomique de Saint-Jean à Lyon. Notice, Paris 1901.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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118, rue Montmartre Paris
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1900 Paris Universal Grand prix in class 15 (precision instrumentation) and class 96 (horologvy). In class 27they obtained a gold medal for electrical horology, silver medals in classes 21mechanics) and 118 (marine) and bronze medals in classes 29, 32 and 117 (public wo
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Identifiant
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1374
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