Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier

Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier (16 June 1832 – 4 October 1919)^[1] was a French engineer who graduated from the École polytechnique. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to général de division in 1888.

He is best known for the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage which was partly named after him.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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[1] [1] Leonore

[2] Mathematical tutorial of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage

[3] How to draw a straight line by Daina Taimina

[4] Note sur le Losange Articulé du Commandant du Génie Peaucellier, destiné a remplacer le Parallélogramme de Watt (in French)

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