Billiaux, Michel.
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Nom
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Billiaux, Michel.
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Date de naissance
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1751
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Lieu de naissance
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Lailly (l'Yonne)
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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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A maker of physics apparatus from c. 1781 he specialised in the making of lightning conductors for buildings and for ships being sent to Brest by the government for the task in 1787 (1). He is to be identified with the Biliau or Billeau from whom glass plates for an electrical machine were seized by the Founders' Corporation in 1782 and who was accorded a Brevet as Ingénieur du Roi in the short-lived new corporation of instrument-makers established in 1787 (2). In 1789 he is noted as a member of the Academy of Richemont (3), and from May 1793 made one of the Société des Inventions et Découvertes by whom his name was put. forward as someone capable of holding a public office. In 1793 he was working on the development of a new form of carriage for transporting sick or. wounded. soldiers (4). In 1805 he was member of the commission that reported on a new form of steelyard devised by Fourché (qv.). Either he or a relation may have been the mechanician Billiaux who made rotatable cupolas for the Observatoire de Paris and that of the Collège de France in 1807 (5).
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Notes biographiques
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1 CDD, 34; Almanach Dauphin 1789.
2 Daumas 133, 136.
3 Tablettes 1789.
4. CDD 34, 46.
5. Daumas, 383
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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r du Bouloi, Paris (1787).
37, Rue du Fbg St Martin, Paris (1793-98)
70, Rue du Fbg St Martin, Paris (1810 & 1811 CDD, & ? later Almanach de Commerce).
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Identifiant
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1125
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