Louis-François-Clement Breguet made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Louis-François-Clement Breguet as French physicist and watchmaker (1804-1883).
Louis-François-Clement Breguet was born at former 11th arrondissement of Paris in 1804. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Lycée Condorcet.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
Louis-François-Clement Breguet is described as physicist and watchmaker.
Louis-François-Clement Breguet is associated first and foremost with work in the early days of telegraphy. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
The surviving body of work includes engine order telegraph and Foy–Breguet telegraph.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1883, at 79. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Notable work: engine order telegraph
- Notable work: Foy–Breguet telegraph
- Educated at Lycée Condorcet
- Worked as physicist and watchmaker
