Lucien Vidie
Lucien Vidie (* 1805 in Nantes ; † April 1866 there ) was a French engineer and inventor. Lucien Vidie is the inventor of the aneroid barometer . After him, the aneroid cans have also become known as Vidie cans. Such a can is hermetically sealed. Your lid bulges inwards or outwards depending on the air pressure .
The steam engine engineer Vidie patented his invention of the aneroid can in 1844 in the name of his friend Pierre Armand Lecomte de Fontainmoreau, owner of a patent office in Paris and London.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lucien Vidie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Kurzbiographie (English)
- Lucien Vidie and the invention of the aneroid barometer Friends of old weather instruments
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| SURNAME | Vidie, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French inventor of the aneroid barometer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1866 |
| Place of death | Nantes |