Jean-Joseph-Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (6 February 1764 in
Laon
Laon () is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
History
Early history
The holy district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. In ...
– 18 October 1815 in
Tourny
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) was a French general manager of powders and saltpeter.
Biography
A general manager of powders and saltpeter during the
National Convention
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, a professor at the
École polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
(1812-1816), Bottée de Toulmon established the powder mill of
Maromme
Maromme () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Geography
A suburban town of forestry and light industry situated by the banks of the Cailly, just northwest of Rouen city centre, at the junction ...
, near
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
.
He is the inventor of a hydrostatic test tube used to determine the explosive force of powders.
[Dezobry et Bachelet, ''Dictionnaire de biographie'', t. 1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 341]
Musicologist
Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (1797-1850) was his son.
Works
* 1812: ''Art de fabriquer la poudre à canon'' (with Riffault)
* 1812: ''Art du salpêtrier''
References
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1764 births
People from Laon
1816 deaths
Academic staff of École Polytechnique
19th-century French inventors