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  2. List of French inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Fauvism: a style of art pioneered by early 20th-century French modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Ondes Martenot in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (early electronic musical instrument ). [30] Gemmail in the 1930s by painter Jean Crotti. [31]

  3. Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) - Wikipedia

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    Étienne Lenoir (1744–1832) was a French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle. [1] When hired by Jean-Charles de Borda around 1772 to work on the reflecting circle, he was about thirty years old and nearly illiterate. However, his intelligence and mechanical genius allowed him to perform work that few others could ...

  4. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Wikipedia

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    Scott built several devices with the help of acoustic instrument maker Rudolph Koenig. [6] Unlike Thomas Edison's later invention of 1877, the phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and did not have the ability to play back its recordings. Scott de Martinville's intention was for the device's waves to be read by ...

  5. Category:French inventions - Wikipedia

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  6. Guillaume Amontons - Wikipedia

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    Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist.He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact.

  7. Ondes Martenot - Wikipedia

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    The ondes Martenot (/ ˈ oʊ n d m ɑːr t ə ˈ n oʊ / OHND mar-tə-NOH; French: [ɔ̃d maʁtəno], "Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument. It is played with a keyboard or by moving a ring along a wire, creating "wavering" sounds similar to a theremin .

  8. Louis Chapotot - Wikipedia

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    Louis Chapotot (17th century) was a French scientific instrument maker. French maker of optical and mathematical instruments. Worked in Paris, 1670–1700, at Quai de l'Horloge du Palais à la Sphère. He was an apprentice to Guillaume Ménard and appointed Master of the Corporation des Fondeurs.

  9. Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy - Wikipedia

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    Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy & Cie, abbreviated as "J.T.L.", was a French musical instrument making company, formed in the mid 19th century from the merger of pre-existing makers. [1] It was based in Mirecourt, France, and was active producing large numbers of woodwind, brass and stringed instruments until the mid 20th century.

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