1715 'machine a tailler les roues' (wheel cutting machine) (Inv. No. 1226) on display at the Musee des Arts et Metiers
Pierre Fardoil was an ingenious French maker of scientific instruments and small precision machine tools
Fardoil may have been the first person in France to produce a gear wheel cutting machine [1].
A machine dated at 1715 is on display at the Musee des Arts et Metiers, described as a 'machine a tailler les roues' (wheel cutting machine) (Inv. No. 1226). Another 1715 machine is described as a wheel dividing machine (Inv. No. 1231).
The Musee des Arts et Metiers also have several other small Fardoil machines on display, including a very small lathe dated at 1697, apparently for turning fusees (Inv. No. 1240), and two sophisticated file-cutting machines dated at c.1700 (Inv. Nos. 1217 & 1220).
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Scientific Instruments of the 17th & 18th Centuries and their Makers' by Maurice Daumas, translated by Dr Mary Holbrook, Portman Books, 1972