La Porcherie (; oc, La Porcharia) is a
commune in the
Haute-Vienne
Haute-Vienne (; oc, Nauta Vinhana, ; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitai ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central
France.
La Porcherie station La Porcherie is a railway station in La Porcherie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Orléans–Montauban railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF
The Société nationale des chemin ...
has rail connections to Brive-la-Gaillarde and Limoges.
Notable people
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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940): French
physician and
physicist, born in Château de la Borie, in La Porcherie; inventor of the moving-coil
D'Arsonval galvanometer
A galvanometer is an electromechanical measuring instrument for electric current. Early galvanometers were uncalibrated, but improved versions, called ammeters, were calibrated and could measure the flow of current more precisely.
A galvanom ...
and the
thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of
electrophysiology, the study of the effects of
electricity on
biological organisms, in the 19th century.
See also
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Communes of the Haute-Vienne department
References
Communes of Haute-Vienne
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