Joseph Thaddäus Winnerl
Joseph Thaddäus Winnerl (born January 25, 1799 in Mureck in Styria , † January 27, 1886 in Paris ) was an Austrian watchmaker and chronometer maker.
After an apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Graz, he worked in northern Germany and with Urban Jürgensen in Copenhagen , and finally from 1829 at Breguet in Paris. It was there in 1831 that he invented the first chronoscope , a pocket watch whose second hand could be stopped and restarted at will regardless of the clockwork. A year later, he set out with a business independently and manufactured marine chronometers , precision pocket watches and precision pendulum clocks .
Around 1838 he developed a split- seconds mechanism for use in chronographs , and later he designed the first pendulum clock with electrical contact. Ferdinand Adolph Lange worked for Winnerl in Paris for four years until 1840.
Winnerl was the city councilor of Paris from 1859 to 1870.
literature
- Tony Mercer: Chronometer Makers of the World . NAG Press, Colchester 1991, ISBN 978-0719802409 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fr. A. Kames (Ed.): German watchmaker's calendar for the year 1939 . In: Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung . Berlin 1938.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winnerl, Joseph Thaddäus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Parisian watchmaker and chronometer maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mureck , Styria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1886 |
| Place of death | Paris |