The accomplishments of famous French inventors - inventions from France.
Bartholdi was a French sculptor born in Alsace. He created many monumental sculptures and his most famous work was the Statue of Liberty a gift from France to America.
In 1849, the Bourdon tube pressure gauge was patented in France by Eugene Bourdon.
French inventor, Louis Braille invented braille printing.
Louis Paul Cailletet was the famous French inventor and physicist who invented the altimeter and the high-pressure manometer.
The breakthrough in pencil technology came when French inventor and chemist Nicolas Conte developed and patented the process used to make pencils in 1795.
Rudolf Diesel, born in Paris, France is responsible for the invention of the diesel engine.
French explorers, Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invented the first demand regulator and the first autonomous diving suit, the beginning modern scuba diving equipment.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was behind the invention of the daguerreotype process in France.
Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower for the Paris World's Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.
On March 28, 1910 the first successful seaplane take-off from water at Martinque, France.
Jean Foucault, a 19th-century French scientist, is responsible for giving the name gyroscope to a wheel or rotor mounted in gimbal rings.
How an attempt to do away with the death penalty by French Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin backfired.
The stethoscope was invented by the French inventor and physician René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec.
French inventors, Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier made the first successful hot-air balloon.
The electroscope, a device for detecting electric charge, was invented by French scientist Jean Nollet in 1748.
The French scientist, Blaise Pascal has been credited with inventing the very first digital calculator.
Pasteur invented pasteurization and discovered the germ theory of disease, one of the most important discoveries in medical history.
Gaspard de Prony was the famous mathematician and French inventor who invented the Prony brake or dynamometer.
The bikini was an invention created in France in 1946, named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing. The French inventors were Jacques Heim and Louis Reard.
Louis Sebastien Lenormand of France, is generally credited with being the first to demonstrate the parachute principle in 1783.
The first functional sewing machine was invented by French tailor and inventor Barthelemy Thimonnier in 1830.
