Tavernier

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“Tavernier”, Dictionary of precision Instrument-makers and related craftsmen. Consulté le 16 juil. 2025, https://bibnum.explore.psl.eu/s/psl/ark:/18469/1s8fx

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Couverture temporelle
mid-late 19th century -mid 20th century
Société
Tavernier-Gravet
Biographie
Successors to Gravet-Lenoir (qv), specialist makers of slide-rules following the great expansion in their use from c. 1820 onwards when Etienne and Paul-Etienne Lenoir (qv ), from whom Gravet-Lenoir claimed succession, pioneered their production. In 1851 Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim (1831-1906), later (1864) Professor of Descriptive Geometry at the Ecole Polytechnique, who had devised a new form of slide-rule, confided its production to Lenoir-Gravet, production of it being continued by Gravet-Tavernier who became identified with its world-wide success. Tavernier was working with Gravet at least by 1862 when he was developing their telemeter.1 Subsequently in partnership, they developed and marketed the rule invented by Beghin, Professor at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Lille and in 1942 that of Barrière, a railway engineer. The firm continued to publish the handbook to the slide-rule written by its its director F. Guy, when he was Professor of Industrial mechanics at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Chalons-sur-Marne.2 At the end of the century the firm's English agent was J.H. Steward, 406 Strand, 457 West Strand, 7 Gracechurch Street, London.3 They were succeeded by Paul Michon. Other instruments known: Telemetric surveying kit (private collection Low Countries). Surveyor's level with telescope;4 alidade; fishing net mesh calibres.5
Notes biographiques
1 A d Sc. Doss d'Abbadie, letter to Radau 27 July & 28 August 1862.
2 F. Guy, Instruction sur la règle à calcul, Paris 18**; 2nd edition 1854, 6th edition, 1876; 7th edition 1872, 9th edition, 1881.
3 Advertisement in Charles N. Pickworth, The Slide Rule a practical manual, Manchester, 1897 (1st edition, 1894). Pickworth's work was exclusively devoted to the Mannheim-type rule.
4 Peticollot 1. 7. 98 lot 39
5 Turner 2012.
Bibliographie
Instructions concernant l'usage des Règles à calculs: Mannheim, Rietz, Electricien, No 22, Paris, n.d. [c. 1942]
Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
14, r Cassette Paris
39, rde Babylone Paris
5, r de Babylone Paris
19, r Mayet Paris
Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
1867 Paris International Silver medal (geodetic instruments)
Identifiant
2464
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