Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (born 1777)

Charles Cagniard de la Tour

French engineer and physicist (1777–1859)

Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour was a French engineer and physicist. Charles Cagniard was born in Paris, and after attending the École Polytechnique became one of the ingénieurs géographiques. He examined the mechanism of voice-production, invented a blowing machine and…