Auguste-Lucien Vérité

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Auguste-Lucien Vérité

Born	(1806-10-21)21 October 1806 Beauvais, France
Died	19 July 1887(1887-07-19) (aged 80)
Occupation	Clockmaker

Auguste-Lucien Vérité (21 October 1806 – 19 July 1887) was a French clockmaker, the creator of the Besançon astronomical clock^[1] and the Beauvais astronomical clock.^[2]

Vérité also did pioneering work on clock synchronisation. Working for the Chemins de fer du Nord railway company, he installed a clock network at Gare du Nord in Paris with all the station clocks regulated by electromagnetic impulse from a single master clock.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "Auguste-Lucien Vérité". Cathédrale de Besançon et son horloge astronomique (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2024.
^ "Horloge astronomique d'Auguste Vérité de Beauvais". Association Beauvais Cathédrale (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2024.

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