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Mass conscription or Levée en masse during the French Revolution. [202] Corps by Napoleon in 1805. [203] Carabine à tige by Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (improvement of an earlier invention by Henri-Gustave Delvigne) before 1844. [204] Minié rifle by Claude-Étienne Minié, first reliable (easy to load) muzzle-loading rifle in 1849.
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This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2/Military History Channel in the United States. Current programming [ edit ]
Jean-Pierre [François] Blanchard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; 4 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, Blanchard later ...
Portal R2E CCMC was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the Réalisation et Études électroniques department of the French firm R2E Micral, [1] and officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris. [2] [3] Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer, was only released eight months later, on 3 ...
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Science and technology in France has a long history dating back to the Académie des Sciences, founded by Louis XIV in 1666, at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
That's Impossible is a television series on the History Channel that examines seemingly impossible technologies based upon stories and inventions in history, and details exactly what is needed to turn them into reality. [1] The show premiered on July 7, 2009 and was narrated by Jonathan Frakes.