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Abraham-Louis Breguet

1747 - 1823

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Abraham-Louis Breguet (French pronunciation: [abʁa.am lwi bʁeɡɛ]; 10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry, including the tourbillon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham-Louis Breguet has received more than 290,578 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Abraham-Louis Breguet is the 109th most popular inventor (down from 91st in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 86th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Inventor.

Abraham-Louis Breguet is most famous for inventing the tourbillon, a device that compensates for the effects of gravity on the timepiece's accuracy.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 109 out of 426. Before him are Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Pilates, Johann Philipp Reis, and Clément Ader. After him are Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, Zacharias Janssen, and Charles-Émile Reynaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 3. Before him are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. After him are Roger Ducos, Vivant Denon, Johann Elert Bode, Rose Bertin, Gottfried August Bürger, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Leopold Koželuch, and Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria. Among people deceased in 1823, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 12. Before him are Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Charles François Dumouriez, Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are Rafael del Riego, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Markos Botsaris, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 112 out of 1,015. Before him are Hannes Meyer (1889), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), and Jost Bürgi (1552). After him are César Ritz (1850), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), and Jakob Steiner (1796).

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Among INVENTORS In Switzerland

Among inventors born in Switzerland, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 1. After him are George de Mestral (1907), and Rodolphe Lindt (1855).

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