Lucien Vidi

Lucien Vidie

Lucien Vidie (1805, Nantes – April 1866, Nantes) was a French physicist. In 1844 he invented the barograph, that is, a device to monitor pressure, a recording aneroid barometer.[1]

Vidie's death was ascribed to his excessive use of hydrotherapy.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Louis Figuier; Émile Gautier. L'Année scientifique et 849 designed a similar barometer, filed a suit in 1852, which Vidie won by late 1858.
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