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Thury HVDC System
Thury may refer to: People * Pierre de Thury ( -1410), said the cardinal Maillezais, a French cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, see Council of Pisa *György Thury (1519-1571), a Hungarian nobleman ( hu) *Louis-Pierre Thury (died in 1699), French missionary priest in Acadia * César-François Cassini de Thury (1714-1784), French geographer * Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury (1776–1854), French scientist and politician *René Thury René Thury (7 August 1860 – 23 April 1938) was a Switzerland, Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "Kin ... (1860-1938), a Swiss engineer Toponyms France * Thury, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or (département) * Thury, Yonne, in the Yonne (département) * Thury-en-Valois, in the Oise (département) * Thury-Harcourt, in the Calvados (département) * Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise (département) * La Villeneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre De Thury
Pierre de Thury (died 9 December 1410) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, who served as a royal secretary and Master of Requests, and then as papal Nuncio and Apostolic Legate on several occasions. He participated in two papal elections, those of 1394 and 1409, and was a prominent member of the Council of Pisa in 1409. Biography Pierre was born in Bresse, which at the time was part of the County of Savoy. The date of his birth is unknown. His brother Philippe became Archbishop of Lyon in 1389, and Cardinal Pierre de Thury was present as Papal Legate when the remains of Saint Irenaeus of Lyon were examined in 1410. Another brother, Renaud, was Precentor, and then Dean of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Lyon. Their uncle Guillaume, the brother of Girard de Thury, had been Archbishop of Lyon from 1358 to 1365, and had founded a chapel in the parish of Cuisery in Bresse châlonnaise. Early career He obtained the degree of ''Doctor in utroque iure'' (Civil a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Pisa
The Council of Pisa (; , also nicknamed the , "secret meeting", by those who considered it illegitimate) was a controversial council held in 1409. It attempted to end the Western Schism by deposing both Benedict XIII (Avignon) and Gregory XII (Rome) for schism and manifest heresy. The College of Cardinals, composed of members from both the Avignon Obedience and the Roman Obedience, who were recognized by each other and by the Council, then elected a third papal claimant, Alexander V, who lived only a few months. He was succeeded by John XXIII. Preliminaries During the conclave of November 1406, Cardinal Angelo Correr had promised, along with all the other cardinals who signed the electoral capitulations, that if elected Pope, he would not create new cardinals except to keep the college of the Roman Obedience on a par with the Avignon Obedience. When he was elected Pope Gregory XII, he signed and ratified those capitulations. But in May 1408, without need, he insisted on cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Pierre Thury
Louis-Pierre Thury (; c. 1644, Notre Dame de Le Breuil-en-Auge, Breuil en Auge (Department of Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during the time of King William's War. He was a liaison between the French and their Native American allies during the course of the conflict, and died soon after it ended. Biography Thury was born around 1644 in Normandy, and had probably begun his theological studies in France. He arrived in New France in 1675 as a missionary. In 1684, when the institution wanted to found a missionary in the French colony of Acadia, Father François de Laval sent him on an observation tour from Percé to Port Royal, and chose to settle at Miramichi. Later, he settled Castine, Maine, and remained there for a time. In 1688 Fr. Louis-Pierre Thury, of the Foreign Missions, established the first regular mission at Panawambskek (Penobscot). In 1689, he took part in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César-François Cassini De Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer. Biography Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise department, the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Comte de Cassini. In 1739, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences as a supernumerary adjunct astronomer, in 1741 as an adjunct astronomer, and in 1745 as a full member astronomer. In January 1751, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Cassini de Thury succeeded his father's official position in 1756 and continued the hereditary surveying operations.Jonathan Powell, ''From Cave Art to Hubble: A History of Astronomical Record Keeping'', (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019), 115 In 1744, he began the construction of a great to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Étienne Héricart De Thury
Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury (Paris, 3 June 1776 – Rome, 15 January 1854) was a French politician and man of science. He was a mining engineer who produced more than 350 scholarly articles; was a member of numerous societies and professional associations. He was heir to an estate of great horticultural richness with the equivalent of a private arboretum. He was a founding member of the National Horticultural Society of France. His family were of the '' noblesse de robe'', his father a master councillor at the ''Cour des Comptes''. The Héricart showed an aptitude for science and was enrolled in the ''École des Mines'' 13 April 1795. His first commissions sent him on several trips to the south of France. In 1809 he was assigned the position of general inspector of quarries, a position he held, under changes of government, until 1830. Following the work of Charles Axel Guillaumot, he undertook the work researching and consolidating former Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Thury
René Thury (7 August 1860 – 23 April 1938) was a Switzerland, Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "King of DC." Biography René Thury's father, Marc-Antoine Thury, was a teacher of Natural History. From 1874 René became an apprentice at Société Instruments Physiques, a precision machine building firm in Geneva working for Emil Bürgin who made refinements to the gramme machine, dynamos of Zénobe Gramme. When Bürgin left SIP in 1876, Thury became his successor. He was also served as a laboratory technician of Prof. Jacques-Louis Soret at the University of Geneva. Soret had acquired a Burgin dynamo placing it in series with batteries, and Thury secretly devised a means to make the batteries superfluous. In 1877, he built a steam powered tricycle along with a medical student Jean-Jacques Nussberger who financed the project. It could re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thury, Côte-d'Or
Thury () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Côte-d'Or {{Beaune-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thury, Yonne
Thury () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the natural region of Forterre. Its inhabitants are called ''Thurycois'' and ''Thurycoises''. Name Thury's is attested as ''Tauriacus'' in the high medieval ''Gesta of the Bishops of Auxerre'' (see below); ''Thuraco'' in 1369 (Pouillé (ecclesiastical register), Pouillé); ''Thoriaco'' of the fourteenth century (Pouillé (ecclesiastical register), Pouillé). ''Tauriacus'' originally referred to a field or property of one ''Taurus'', possibly ''Taruos'' in Gaulish language, Gaulish. The Gallo-Roman culture, Gallo-Roman suffix ''-acus'' or ''-acum'' is of Gaulish origin and indicates a person's property. This suffix (:fr:Suffixe -acum, fr) often evolved into ''-y'' in many French place names, in Thury's region and far beyond. An alternative etymology would be from the appellative ''turra'', of pre-Latin and possibly Gaulish origin and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
