Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot as French inventor (1725–1804).
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born at Void in 1725. His recorded nationality is France.
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 military engineer, engineer and thermophysicist.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot died in 1804 at the age of 79. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Worked as military engineer, engineer and thermophysicist
