Auguste Bottée de Toulmon
Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, V11, 1853, Planche 16
Jean-Joseph-Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (6 February 1764 in Laon – 18 October 1815 in Tourny) was a French general manager of powders and saltpeter.
Biography[]
A general manager of powders and saltpeter during the National Convention, a professor at the École polytechnique (1812-1816), Bottée de Toulmon established the powder mill of Maromme, near Rouen.
He is the inventor of a hydrostatic test tube used to determine the explosive force of powders.[1]
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[]
- ^ Dezobry et Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t. 1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 341
Categories:
- 1764 births
- People from Laon
- 1816 deaths
- École Polytechnique faculty
- 19th-century French inventors