What are some French inventions?
Ambroise Paré (1510-1590): surgical instruments # Blaise Pascal: mechanical calculator (1642) # Metric system, proposed by Gabriel Mouton in 1670, worked out by the French Academy of Sciences in 1790 # Nicolas Joseph Cugnot: steam-driven car (1769) # George Louis Lesage used a single wire system to telegraph a message (1774) # Joseph M.Jacquard – first industrially applicable automatic loom (late 18th century) # Montgolfier (Joseph and Etienne): the hot-air balloon (1783) # Louis Lenormand: the parachute (1783) # Jean Baptiste Meusnier: lighter-than-air dirigible developed (1785) # Claude Chappe: optical system telegraph (1791) # Nicolas Appert – invented our canning process involving bactericide by boiling (1810) # René T.H. Laennec – invented the stethoscope (1816) # Joseph L. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), chemist: the hydrometer and alcoholometer # Jean-François Champollion – first deciphered the Rosetta Stone(1822) # Louis Braille: printed language for the blind (1829) # Joseph N.Niepce:
