Global Information Lookup Global Information

Charles Xavier Thomas information


Charles Xavier Thomas
Drawing of Charles Xavier Thomas
BornMay 5, 1785
Colmar, France
DiedMarch 12, 1870 (1870-03-13) (aged 84)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forArithmometer
Monument in Colmar

Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (May 5, 1785 – March 12, 1870) was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting, and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, known as the Arithmometer. Additionally, he founded the insurance companies Le Soleil and L'aigle, which, under his leadership, became the number one insurance group in France during the early years of the Second Empire.

and 21 Related for: Charles Xavier Thomas information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8981 seconds.)

Charles Xavier Thomas

Last Update:

Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (May 5, 1785 – March 12, 1870) was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting, and manufacturing...

Word Count : 580

Charles Thomas

Last Update:

Xavier Thomas (1785–1870), French inventor and entrepreneur Charles Allen Thomas (1900–1982), American chemist and businessman Charles Thomas Thomas (1820–1867)...

Word Count : 596

Machine

Last Update:

rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons (1699) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1785). James Watt patented his parallel motion linkage...

Word Count : 6417

List of Alsatians and Lotharingians

Last Update:

Sturm Charles Xavier Thomas Catherine Trautmann Marie Tussaud Tomi Ungerer Emile Waldteufel Jean-Jacques Waltz Arsène Wenger Jacob Wimpfeling Charles-Adolphe...

Word Count : 523

Alsace

Last Update:

Bethe Charles Friedel Charles Frédéric Gerhardt Johann Hermann Alfred Kastler Erich Leo Lehmann Jean-Marie Lehn Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Charles Xavier Thomas...

Word Count : 9843

Colmar

Last Update:

(1771–1821), lieutenant general Conrad Berg (1785–1852), composer Charles Xavier Thomas (1785–1870), inventor Marie Bigot (1786–1820), musician, pianist...

Word Count : 2740

History of computing hardware

Last Update:

(including Charles Babbage's machines of 1822 and even ENIAC of 1945) were based on the decimal system. Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar created...

Word Count : 17620

List of inventors

Last Update:

Rhythmicon (first drum machine), The Thing (listening device) Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785–1870), France – Arithmometer Elihu Thomson (1853–1937)...

Word Count : 11964

Timeline of computing hardware before 1950

Last Update:

2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–present History of computing hardware Fowler, Charles B. (October 1967). "The Museum of Music: A History of Mechanical Instruments"...

Word Count : 1943

Frances Xavier Cabrini

Last Update:

Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American...

Word Count : 4631

Francis Xavier

Last Update:

Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish:...

Word Count : 8421

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Last Update:

category 'Machines' Adolphe Sax presented an example of the saxhorn. Charles Xavier Thomas of Colmar presented the arithmometer. Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot...

Word Count : 848

1820 in science

Last Update:

Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons is published in London. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator...

Word Count : 710

1870 in science

Last Update:

(born 1799), English-born Australian horticulturalist. March 12 – Charles Xavier Thomas (born 1785), French inventor of the first mass-produced calculator...

Word Count : 715

Xavier University

Last Update:

Xavier University (/ˈzeɪvjər/ ZAY-vyure) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university...

Word Count : 4380

Xavier Dolan

Last Update:

Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (French: [ɡzavje dɔlan tadʁɔs]; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in...

Word Count : 7472

Frank Stephen Baldwin

Last Update:

he had seen an arithmometer, a calculating machine devised by Charles Xavier Thomas around 1820 and which, at the time, was the only mechanical desktop...

Word Count : 955

Xavier University of Louisiana

Last Update:

Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) is a private, historically black (HBCU), Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU...

Word Count : 3752

Mission San Xavier del Bac

Last Update:

Mission San Xavier del Bac (Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown...

Word Count : 2507

1785 in France

Last Update:

François-Jean-Hyacinthe Feutrier 21 April - Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut 5 May - Charles Xavier Thomas 12 July - Joseph Pelet de la Lozère 30 September...

Word Count : 213

Xavier Becerra

Last Update:

Xavier Becerra (/hɑːviˈɛər bɪˈsɛrə/ hah-vee-AIR beh-SEHR-ə; Latin American Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ βeˈsera]; born January 26, 1958) is an American lawyer and...

Word Count : 7983

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net