At a glance
- Period
- 19th century
- Also known as
- Edouard Phillips
The watchmaking story
Useful places to start with Édouard Phillips' work include Balance-spring terminal-curve theory and chronometric research. 1
Sources connect Édouard Phillips with École Polytechnique, École Centrale, and Corps des mines, without establishing a formal role. 1
Scope: Horological science
Why this person is included
Documented original contribution
Background and working context
Affiliations and workshops: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines 1
Documented origin: Paris, France 1
Geographic ties: France. Documented principal work / project location; not a citizenship assertion
Brands, workshops, and other relationships
- Institution / education / public service · Inherited source-linked record; relationship classification reviewed, sources not reopened
École Polytechnique — Institutional association — role not established. Engineer / mathematician of chronometry 1
Legacy affiliation: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. Person-level contribution: Applied elasticity theory to balance springs, terminal curves and isochronism, and investigated balance adjustment and temperature-compensation errors.
Original affiliation wording: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. No present-day employment or ownership inferred.
- Institution / education / public service · Inherited source-linked record; relationship classification reviewed, sources not reopened
École Centrale — Institutional association — role not established. Engineer / mathematician of chronometry 1
Legacy affiliation: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. Person-level contribution: Applied elasticity theory to balance springs, terminal curves and isochronism, and investigated balance adjustment and temperature-compensation errors.
Original affiliation wording: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. No present-day employment or ownership inferred.
- Institution / education / public service · Inherited source-linked record; relationship classification reviewed, sources not reopened
Corps des mines — Institutional association — role not established. Engineer / mathematician of chronometry 1
Legacy affiliation: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. Person-level contribution: Applied elasticity theory to balance springs, terminal curves and isochronism, and investigated balance adjustment and temperature-compensation errors.
Original affiliation wording: École Polytechnique; École Centrale; Corps des mines. No present-day employment or ownership inferred.
Evidence and limitations
This dossier connects 8 field-specific evidence records with 1 public source. Known links only; full career not established; unresolved relationship(s) remain
Claim qualifications (8)
- Noteworthy contribution: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Representative work: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Affiliations / workshops: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Specific role: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Documented origin: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Primary geography: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. 1
- Birth year: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. Post-consolidation gap-resolution pass: historical value snapshot differs from the current People value; retain as audit history. 1
- Death year: Scientific contribution to watch regulation, not attribution as a commercial bench watchmaker. See source caveat on conflicting editorial metadata. Post-consolidation gap-resolution pass: historical value snapshot differs from the current People value; retain as audit history. 1
Sources
- Édouard Phillips (1821–1889): Biographie de PhillipsHenry Léauté · Annales des Mines historical archives / École Polytechnique centenary volume · Historical primary text / scholarly archive · 1897 (reproduced online; page also labels biography 1896)
[S0195] Henry Léauté. Annales des Mines historical archives / École Polytechnique centenary volume. "Édouard Phillips (1821–1889): Biographie de Phillips." 1897 (reproduced online; page also labels biography 1896). https://www.annales.org/edit/archives/x/phillips.html Accessed 2026-09-13.
Source context
Relationship to subject: Contemporary scientific biographical account
How it was checked: Page opened; relevant text read
Limitation: HTML has damaged accents. Introductory metadata conflicts with reproduced biography on school-entry and Academy-election dates; those fields are not used. Birth, death and chronometric work are taken from the signed biography.
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