List of French inventions and discoveries explained
Arts and entertainment
- Many bagpipes were developed in France,[3] [4] including the Biniou, the bodega, the Boha, the Bousine, the Cabrette, the Chabrette, the Cornemuse du Centre, the loure, the Musette bechonnet, the Musette bressane and the Musette de cour.
- First mechanical metronome by Étienne Loulié in 1696 (but the modern form of the metronome was patented only in 1815[5]).
- Rococo in the early 18th century.[6]
- Clavecin électrique, earliest surviving electric-powered musical instrument, in 1759 by Jean-Baptiste Thillaie Delaborde[7]
- Roulette was developed in 18th century France[8] from a primitive form created by Blaise Pascal (17th century).[9] In 1843, Louis and François Blanc introduced the single 0 style roulette wheel.
- Many other gambling games and card games (including the French suits around 1480)[10] were invented in France, some from earlier games :
- Photography:
- Fairground organ by Joseph and Antoine Limonaire and Giacomo Gavioli.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
- Collotype process by Alphonse Poitevin in 1856.[21]
- Beaux-Arts architecture: a 19th century architectural style drawing upon principles of French neoclassicism, and taking inspiration from the baroque and rococo styles.
- Impressionism: a 19th-century art movement originating with Parisian artists.
- Vaudeville: a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century.
- The praxinoscope of Charles-Émile Reynaud (1877) is an animation device intermediary between the zoetrope and film.
- Bal-musette: a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was replaced with accordion, on which a variety of waltzes, polkas, and other dance styles were played for dances.
- Cabaret by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 in Paris.[22]
- Chronophotography by Étienne-Jules Marey (co-developed with Eadweard Muybridge, Albert Londe, Georges Demeny and Ottomar Anschutz) in 1882 in Paris.[23]
- Ambient music: as an early 20th-century French composer, Erik Satie used such Dadaist-inspired explorations to create an early form of ambient/background music that he labeled "furniture music" (Musique d'ameublement). This he described as being the sort of music that could be played during a dinner to create a background atmosphere for that activity, rather than serving as the focus of attention.
- Cinema, developed from chronophotography:
- First motion picture camera and first projector by Louis Le Prince, Frenchman who worked in the United Kingdom and the United States.[24] [25] [26]
- The cinematograph by Léon Bouly (1892).
- First commercial, public screening of cinematographic films by Auguste and Louis Lumière in Paris on 28 December 1895.[27]
- Georges Méliès: first filmmaker to use the stop trick, or substitution, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. His most famous film, A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la Lune), in 1902, was the first science fiction film and the most popular movie of its time (another of his productions, Le Manoir du diable is also sometimes considered the first horror movie).[28]
- Impressionist music
developed during the late 19th century by French composers, such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Chemistry
Physics, mathematics and measure
- Stirling's formula was discovered and proven by Abraham de Moivre circa 1733.[68]
- The conservation of mass by Antoine Lavoisier[69] (18th century).
- Modern hydrometer by Jacques Charles.[70]
- Metric system during the French Revolution.[71] [72] and several measures used in physics in the SI.
- Laplace's equation, Laplace operator, Laplace transform, Laplace distribution, Laplace's demon, Laplace expansion, Young–Laplace equation, Laplace number, Laplace limit, Laplace invariant, Laplace principle, proof that every equation of an even degree must have at least one real quadratic factor, solution of the linear partial differential equation of the second order and general proof of the Lagrange reversion theorem by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century.[73]
- The Gay-lussac Scale used by hydrometers and alcoholometers by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (after an idea of Jacques Charles).
Medicine and biology
- Lamarckism, the first cohesive theory of evolution[84] as well as a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, laid out by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1809. Long dismissed in favour of Darwinism, recent developments in the field of epigenetics have led scientists to debate whether Lamarckism was, in fact, correct to an extent.[85]
- Ligature of arteries in 1565 by Ambroise Paré.[86]
- Blood transfusion by Jean-Baptiste Denys on June 15, 1667.[87] and first modern transfusion by Émile Jeanbrau on October 16, 1914 (after the first non-direct transfusion performed on March 27, 1914, by the Belgian doctor Albert Hustin).
- Modern dentistry by Pierre Fauchard (father of modern dentistry, early eighteenth century).[88] [89]
- Modern cataract surgery by Jacques Daviel in 1748 (even if early cataract surgery already existed in the antiquity).
- Discovery of osmosis in 1748 by Jean-Antoine Nollet.[90] The word "osmosis" descends from the words "endosmose" and "exosmose", which were coined by French physician René Joachim Henri Dutrochet (1776–1847) from the Greek words ένδον (endon : within), έξο (exo : outside), and ωσμος (osmos : push, impulsion).
- The first lifesize obstetrical mannequin, for teaching, by Angelique du Coudray in the 1750s.[91]
- Stethoscope in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris.[92]
- Medical Quinine in 1820 by Joseph Bienaimé Caventou.[93]
- Codeine first isolated in 1832 by Pierre Robiquet.[94]
- Aspirin in 1853 by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt.[95]
- Hypodermic needle in 1853 by Charles Pravaz.[96]
- Blind experiment by Claude Bernard (nineteenth century).[97]
- Discovery of Plasmodium and its role in malaria by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran on November 6, 1880.[98] [99]
- Incubator or Neonatal intensive care unit in 1881 by Étienne Stéphane Tarnier.[100] His student, Pierre-Constant Budin, followed in Tarnier's footsteps, creating perinatology in the late 1890s.[101] [102]
- Germ theory of disease by Louis Pasteur.[103]
- Rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux in 1885.[104]
- Antibiotics by Louis Pasteur and Jean Paul Vuillemin (by means of natural antibiosis; modern artificial antibiotics were developed later by the British Alexander Fleming).[105]
- Mantoux test by Charles Mantoux in 1907.[106] [107]
- Tuberculosis vaccine by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin in 1921 (BCG).[108]
- Antipsychotics in 1952 by Henri Laborit (chlorpromazine).[109]
- Discovery of the cause of Down syndrome (chromosome 21 trisomy) by Jérôme Lejeune[110] in 1958-1959 (syndrome first described by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Édouard Séguin and John Langdon Down)
- First bone marrow transplant by Georges Mathé, a French oncologist, in 1959 on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow had been damaged by irradiation caused by a Criticality accident at the Vinča Nuclear Institute.[111] [112] [113] [114]
- Insulin pump in 1981 by Jacques Mirouze (first implantation) in Montpellier.[115]
- Discovery of human immunodeficiency virus by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier[116] (1983).
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) by Alim-Louis Benabid in 1987.[117] [118]
- Mifepristone, the abortion pill, by Étienne-Émile Baulieu in 1988.[119] [120]
- Hand transplantation on September 23, 1998, in Lyon by a team assembled from different countries around the world including Jean-Michel Dubernard who, shortly thereafter, performed the first successful double hand transplant.[121]
- Telesurgery by Jacques Marescaux and his team on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean (New-York-Strasbourg, Lindbergh Operation).[122]
- Face transplant on November 27, 2005[123] [124] by Dr Bernard Devauchelle.
- CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing by Emmanuelle Charpentier in 2012.[125]
Transportation
- Taxi by Nicolas Sauvage in Paris in 1640.[126]
- Steamboat by Denis Papin.[127] A boat with the world's first internal combustion engine was developed in 1807 by fellow Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce
- Automobile by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769.[128] [129]
- First working Motorcycle, the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede by Louis-Guillaume Perreaux patented in 1869.
- Hot Air Balloon (later, Aerostat and Airship) by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, François Laurent d'Arlandes, the Montgolfier brothers[130] [131] and Jacques Charles (who also invented the first hydrogen-filled balloon).
- Parachute in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand.[132]
- Compressed air vehicle and Pneumatic motor by Andraud and Tessie of Motay in Chaillot on July 9, 1840,[133] improved by Louis Mékarski in 1843 in Nantes (see Mekarski system and Compressed air car).
- In air travel :
- Injector by Henri Giffard in 1858[140]
- Internal combustion engine between 1859 and 1861 by Alphonse Beau de Rochas and Belgian-born Étienne Lenoir in Paris.
- Submarine : The first submarine not relying on human power was the French Plongeur (meaning diver), launched in 1863, and using compressed air at 180 psi (1241 kPa).[141]
- Bicycle in 1864 by Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement (endless power-transmitting chain invented by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1770 and applied to bicycles by J. F. Tretz).[142] [143] [144]
- Gunpowder powered ornithopter by Gustave Trouvé in 1870[145]
- First manned balloon mail during the Siege of Paris (1871)
- First outboard motorboat by Gustave Trouvé around 1870,[146] patented in May 1880[147]
- Inflatable tyres for cars by Édouard Michelin in 1895[148]
- Scooter[149] (1902) and Moped.
- V8 engine by Léon Levavasseur in 1902[150]
- Modern automobile Drum brake in 1902 by Louis Renault.[151]
- Helicopter : in 1907, the two first flying helicopters were experimented independently by Louis Breguet[152] and Paul Cornu.[153]
- Seaplane by Gabriel Voisin in June 1905 (non-autonomous) and by Henri Fabre in 1910 (autonomous : Fabre Hydravion).[154]
- Ramjet by René Lorin in 1913.[155]
- The first helicopter to be powered by a gasturbine (Alouette II), in 1955
- Catalytic converter by Eugene Houdry in 1956.[156] [157]
- Concorde by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (1969)
- HDI diesel engine in 1998 by PSA Peugeot Citroën.
Clothing
- Bliaut in the 12th century.[158]
- French hood in the early 16th century.[159]
- Attifet in the 16th century.[160]
- Jacquard loom, a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask, and matelasse.[161] [162]
- Denim Textile (French town of Nîmes, from which 'denim' de Nîmes gets its name) [163]
- Improved, chain stitch, Sewing machine by Barthélemy Thimonnier in 1830.[164]
- Modern bra by Herminie Cadolle in 1889.[165]
- Little black dress by Coco Chanel in the 1920s,[166] [167]
- Polo shirt by René Lacoste in 1926.[168] [169] [170] [171]
- Modern Bikini by Louis Réard in 1946.[172]
- classic modern pencil skirt by Christian Dior in the late 1940s.[173] [174]
- A-line by Yves Saint Laurent in 1958 (term first used in 1955 by Christian Dior).[175]
- Modern Raincoat (not to confuse with the older British trench-coat) by Guy Cotten in 1960.[176]
- Sweatpants by Émile Camuset, the founder of Le Coq Sportif.[177]
Food and cooking
Weapons and military
- Bec de corbin, a popular medieval weapon.
- Motte-and-bailey, a form of castle.[190]
- The Pot-de-fer, a primitive cannon during the Hundred Years' War.[191]
- Culverin, ancestor of the musket.[192]
- Flintlock by Marin le Bourgeoys in 1612.[193]
- Corvette, a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship that appeared in the 1670s.
- Bayonet (from French baïonnette)[194]
- Modern military uniform in the mid 17th century.[195]
- Floating battery, first used during the Great Siege of Gibraltar in September 1782.[196] [197]
- Mass conscription or Levée en masse during the French Revolution.[198]
- Corps by Napoleon in 1805.[199]
- Carabine à tige by Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (improvement of an earlier invention by Henri-Gustave Delvigne) before 1844.[200]
- Minié rifle by Claude-Étienne Minié, first reliable (easy to load) muzzle-loading rifle in 1849.[201] [202] In the artillery, from 1859, the La Hitte rifled guns were a considerable improvement over the previous smooth-bore guns which had been in use,[203] able to shoot at 3,000 meters either regulars shells, ball-loaded shells or grapeshot. They appear to have been the first case of usage of rifled cannons on a battlefield.[204]
- First naval periscope in 1854 by Hippolyte Marié-Davy.[205] [206] [207] [208]
- Canne de combat and Savate.
- Épée, the modern derivative of the dueling sword, used for fencing.
- Chassepot by Antoine Alphonse Chassepot in 1866.[209]
- Smokeless gunpowder (modern nitrocellulose-based) : Poudre B by Paul Marie Eugène Vieille in 1884.[210] [211] It was first used to load the Lebel Model 1886 rifle (invented by Nicolas Lebel), making it the first military firearm to use smokeless powder ammunition. It is also the first rifle to use full metal jacket bullets as its standard ammunition.
- First Air force in 1910.[212]
- Sonar, first ultrasonic submarine detector using an electrostatic method (and first practical military sonar) in 1916-1917 by Paul Langevin (with Constantin Chilowsky).[213]
- Tanks : developed at the same time (1915–1916) in France and in Great Britain. France was the second country to use tanks on the battlefield (after Great Britain). in 1916, the first practical light tank, the Renault FT with the first full 360° rotation turret became, for armour historian Steven Zaloga "the world's first modern tank".[214]
Communication and computers
Technology
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville earliest sound recording device.
Sports
See main article: Sport in France.
- Jeu de paume, precursor of tennis, in the 12th century.
- The first autonomous diving suit, the precursor to today's scuba gear, is developed by Paul Lemaire d'Augerville in 1824.
- First documented cycling race, a 1,200 metre race held on May 31, 1868, at the Parc of Saint-Cloud, Paris.[253] The first cycle race covering a distance between two cities was Paris–Rouen (see History of cycling).[254]
- FIFA World Cup by Jules Rimet, FIFA former president.
- UEFA Euro Cup by Henri Delaunay.
- Summer Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin.
- International Olympic Committee by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894.[255]
- On 22 July 1894 the newspaper Le Petit Journal organised the world's first competitive motor race from Paris to Rouen. The first finisher was Count Jules-Albert de Dion but his steamer was ineligible, so the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- Pétanque in 1907.[256]
- Triathlon in the 1920s near Paris (Joinville-le-Pont, Meulan and Poissy).[257]
- The Aqua-lung, first Scuba Set (in open-circuit) by Emile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943.[258]
- Parkour in the 1980s by the future Yamakasi, especially David Belle.[259] [260]
- Flyboard in 2012 by Franky Zapata.[261] Another version, the Flyboard Air, an air-propelled hoverboard,[262] achieved a Guinness World Record for farthest flight by hoverboard in April 2016.[263]
- Kitesurf aka flysurf in the 1990s by Manu Bertin and ski mountain derivatives
- Wingsuit in the 1990s by Patrick de Gayardon
- Vendée Globe since 1989 by Philippe Jeantot the first round-the-world single-handed yacht race, sailed non-stop and without assistance
- Paris–Dakar Rally since 1978 by Thierry Sabine
- Trophée Jules Verne since 1985 by Yves Le Cornec the fastest circumnavigation of the world (under 80 days) by any type of sailing yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew
- 24 Heures du Mans translated 24 Hours Le Mans since 1923 the world's oldest active sports car race in endurance racing
- Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile in 1904; translated as the International Automobile Federation.
Miscellaneous
See also
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Original text : Avant que de finir ce Mémoire, je crois devoir rendre compte d'un fait que je dois au hasard, & qui me parut d'abord ... singulier ... j'en avois rempli une fiole cylindrique, longue de cinq pouces, & d'un pouce de diamètre ou environ ; & l'ayant couverte d'un morceau de vessie mouillée & ficelée au col du vaisseau, je l'avois plongée dans un grand vase plein d'eau, afin d'être sûr qu'il ne rentrât aucun air dans l'esprit de vin. Au bout de cinq ou six heures, je fus tout surpris de voir que la fiole étoit plus pleine qu'au moment de son immersion, quoiqu'elle le fût alors autant que ses bords pouvoient le permettre ; la vessie qui lui servoit de bouchon, étoit devenue convexe & si tendue, qu’en la piquant avec une épingle, il en sortit un jet de liqueur qui s'éleva à plus d'un pied de hauteur.
Translation : Before finishing this memoir, I think I should report an event that I owe to chance and which at first seemed to me ... strange ... I filled [with alcohol] a cylindrical vial, five inches long and about one inch in diameter; and [after] having covered it with piece of damp bladder [which was] tied to the neck of the vial, I immersed it in a large bowl full of water, in order to be sure that no air re-entered the alcohol. At the end of 5 or 6 hours, I was very surprised to see that the vial was fuller than at the moment of its immersion, although it [had been filled] as far as its sides would allow ; the bladder that served as its cap, bulged and had become so stretched that on pricking it with a needle, there came from it a jet of alcohol that rose more than a foot high.
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