Dumoulin, Pierre

Contenu

Nom
Dumoulin, Pierre
Couverture temporelle
1865-1894
Société
Dumoulin Froment 1865-1890
Dumoulin Froment Doignon 1890-93
Biographie
The son-in-law of Paul Froment with whom he worked from 1865 onwards. The 6 December 1878 a gyroscope of their construction was employed by E. Dubois for the correction of marine compasses and displayed at a meeting of the Société de Physique. and a gyroscope fitted. with an electro-motor was ordered from them by Krebs for his experiments on submarine navigation. in November 1889 (1). They showed different forms of rheostat and calipers for taking the diameter of conducting wire in hundredths and thousandths of a millimetre in the 1881 exhibition. They made Chantourcois' sphérographique instruments, and compasses for the marine, including those fitted with Duchemmin's circular magnet system (2). A steel pantograph by them was supplied to the LIsbon Observatory where it remains. In 1890 a new company Dumoulin Froment Doignon with a capital of 140,000 francs was created which incorporated the existing assets of Dumoulin Froment.
Notes biographiques
1. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, cxi 1890, 408.
2. Randier III, 12. Liquid compass No 1535, Marine AG, vers 1880. Randier 10.7. 10 lot 183, compass rose 1579 dated 1885.
Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
85 rue Notre Dame des Champs Paris
Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
1867 Paris Universal Gold medal
1881 Paris International Electricity
Identifiant
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