Mercklein, Jean Godefroi.
Contenu
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Nom
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Mercklein, Jean Godefroi.
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Date de naissance
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1733
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Date de mort
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1808
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Lieu de naissance
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Dresden
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 18th century - 1/4 19th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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J. G. Mercklein is likely to have been a brother of J. T . Mercklein. He had arrived in France. with his father Charles Mercklein in 1758 and already that year at Tallende, Auvergne, he was building machines for an ironmongery, edge-tool, and button making factory. He subsequently concerned himself with transforming iron into steel, and with various mechanical devices as chairs and beds, guns, artificial chins and machines for marking leather and tanned skins (1). The latter machine was the subject of a report made to the Académie des Sciences in May 1780 (2).
In 1778 he addressed two petitions to the Bâtiments du Roi one seeking nomination as mechanician in ordinary to that institution, the other for a monopoly grant to cover cytting tools and a polishing machine that he had developed (3). Whether J. G. Mercklein was involved with his namesake in making the new standard metric measures in the early 1790s is not known (4) although in February 1795 measures were delivered to the Agence Temporaire des Poids et Mesures. Whichever Mercklein it was however was having difficulty in completing the order because of inflation. A comparator for the new measures was also constructed by one of the Mercklein (5). J. G. Mercklein became a member of the Société des Inventions et Découvertes in 1791 (6).
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Notes biographiques
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1 Archives Départmentales de Puy-deDome, 1 C 416; CDD 41. Hilaire-Perez 369, although his work is there partly confused with that of his brother J. T. Mercklein.
2. Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, pochette de séance du 24 mai 1780.
3. AN O1 1293 cited from Hilaire-Perez 370.
4. AN F12/1288.
5.. Daumas 177.
6. CDD 53.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Hôtel de Château-Gaillard, rue d'Enfer en la Cité (1792)
3, rue d'Enfer (Cité), Paris 1793.
Cour des Invalides, à l'Arsénal (1798).
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Identifiant
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139
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