Abraham-Louis Breguet belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Abraham-Louis Breguet as Swiss engineer and clockmaker (1747–1823).
Abraham-Louis Breguet was born at Neuchâtel in 1747. His recorded nationality is Principality of Neuchâtel.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives his occupations as watchmaker, physicist and inventor.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
His recorded fields of work are watchmaking.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from Principality of Neuchâtel matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Abraham-Louis Breguet died in 1823 at the age of 76. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Worked as watchmaker, physicist and inventor
