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Charles Augustin Coulomb | ||
Angouléme
(Charente) 11.6.1736-Paris
23.8.1806 | ||
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father, an official of the become army then
tax-collector
of the taxes, had hoped
that Charles became doctor,
but had an
economic financial ruin, and the son entered in the military school
of
engineering of Mézières. He then passed nine
years in the Martinica,
dedicating itself to the reconstruction of the forts
destroyed from
the war of the seven years. He returned in France to the age
of 36 years in health conditions bad. In 1777 he gives to the
press a memory on the method better than
construction of the magnetic needles, where he asserts  that the
magnetic phenomena can be explain you
single making reference the
same forces that regulate the gravity of the bodies
and celestial
physics. In 1779 he participated to a competition announced
publicly
from the academy slow combustion stove
on the study of the
magnetic variations, which he allowed it
to enter in the academy
and were dedicated to the invention and
the study of
the balance to torsion,"
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the most sensitive instrument (millionth
of gram), than allowed to a deepening on the relationship between
electricity and magnetism it. With this he places the
premises for the determination of the fundamental
law, still today famous like "Coulomb's
law" that he defines exactly loads
with a body. | |
In
1789, to the explosion of the French
revolution, of which Coulomb he did not
share the
ideals, one discharges from all its official assignments (in
the
meantime has caught up the lieutenant degree colonel of the Corps of
Engineers), and he withdraws himself to private
life;
Napoleon, then, in 1805, a year
before its dead
women, the nomination General Inspector of the Studies. In its honor the joined one was dedicated to it of loads electrical worker-Coulomb - (C)-. | ||
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