> Friends, can anyone find out the Christian name and the years of
> birth and death of the French ingeneer Peaucellier who invented in
> 1867 the first exact mechanism for the translation of a cyclic motion
> into a straight motion?
Captain Charles-Nicolas PEAUCELLIER (Sarrelouis 1832-Paris 1913)
> It is very remarkable that in the anthology
> of mathematical texts by Smith is reproduced a piece of Peaucellier's
> memoire and in a footnote the biographical data of the Russian Lipkin
> who reinvented independently this mechanism some years later, but not
> the data of Peaucellier. Should also Smith have had trouble to find
> out this?
> Peter Schreiber.
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