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Nom
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Collin, Armand François
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Date de naissance
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1822
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Date de mort
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1895
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 19th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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'Ingénieur-mécanicien, Collin succeeded to the business of B. H. Wagner c. 1850. Although, like them, he specialised in tower clocks and carillons, Collin also produced a number of astronomical regulators. A decimal regulator made for the observatory of Antoine d'Abbadie survives.1 He also innovated in striking mechanisms and investigated electrical horology. (2) Thence he extended his production to devices related to time distribution some of them connected with patents obtained in 1866 and 1882 . At the 1878 exhibition he showed a tide-meter (marégraphe) his paternity of which was disputed (3). Shortly afterwards he made a universal gyroscope demonstration instrument, the stréphoscope.(4) He was succeeded by Château père et fils in the mid- to late 1880s.
The relation to him of George Collin, who published an article 'Les Carillons, étude historique et technique' in the Journal de l'horlogerie française ii 1882, 21 ff, remains to be determined.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Turner 30.
2 For his horological inventions see Tardy 136.
3. Robert 1878, 78 , who claimed that the device had been invented by the hydrographic engineer, Chazallon, made by J. Wagner neveu in 1844, and further developed by Wagner's successor Borrel. Robert is even more severe in his judment of Collin as a clockmaker;
4 L. J. Gruey, 'Le Stréphoscope universel', Paris 1883.
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Bibliographie
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Notice sur le carillon de la Tour de Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois…, Paris (A. Chaix & Cie), 1878.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Rue Montmartre 118 Paris Publication 1878
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1855 Paris Universal, 1st class medal
1860 Paris Universal, Médaillle d'Honneur
1867 Paris Universal, hors concours
1875 Paris Universal, Jury member
1878 Paris Universal (two gold, two silver, and two bronze medals)
1881 Paris International Electricity (gold medal)
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Distinction
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Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
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Brevet
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14 June 1854 (15 years) 'Pendule contrôleur de rondes' with an addition 19 June 1856.
21 December 1864. Perfectionnement apportés aux dispositions et au mécanisme des carillons'.
14 April 1866. 'Perfectionnement apportés au réglage et à la mise à l'heure des horloges entre elles'.
14 November 1868. 'Perfectionnement apportés aux compteurs'.
1876 (N° 111,132). 'Appareils servant à contr^mer la presence et les rondes'.
December 1876. 'pour des dispositions et réunion d'horloges publiques dites horloges d'alarme, et perfectionnements apportés aux -dites horloges ainsi qu'aux contrôleurs'.
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Identifiant
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1077
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