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Term: Paris

Description

Captured & fortified by Romans in 52 BC; ruled by Clovis from 486; besieged by Northmen 885-887; held by English 1420-1436; center for Revolution 1789-1792; taken by Germans 1870-1871; site of many international political conferences 18th-20th cen.

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photograph of solar halo

1883 - 1886

Melloni optical bench with accessories

1860-1875

bell jar with brass stopcock and mercury manometer

circa 1859

tangent galvanometer

circa 1870

Phelps single crown receiver (or transmitter)

1879-1880

People

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Societé du Telephone Edison

founded 1879

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Claude-Siméon Passemant

1702-1769

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Eugène Ducretet

1844 - 1915

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Adolphe Gaiffe

1832 - 1887

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Pierre-Louis Menant

fl. 1730 - 1750