History

Century

Achille Brocot

1817-1878
French clockmaker.

Circa 1860
Invented the Brocot escapement for pendulums.
Invented the Brocot suspension (spring blade pendulum suspension).

1861
Discovery of the Stern-Brocot arbor (new method of calculating cogs by approximation), independently of German mathematician Moritz Stern who discovered it in 1658.

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