ALTIMETERThe altimeter is an instrument which measures vertical distance with respect to a reference level. The altimeter is an instrument that measures the altitude of the land surface or any object such as an airplane. Louis paul Cailletet, was the French physicist who invented the altimeter and the high-pressure manometer

AQUALUNG

The aqualung is a breathing apparatus that supplied oxygen to divers and allowed them to stay underwater for several hours. It was invented in 1943 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau(1910 -1997) and the French industrial gas control systems engineer Emile Gagnan. Among the innovations in their device was a mechanism that provided inhalation and exhaust valves at the same level. That summer, the new device was tested in the Mediterranean Sea down to 210 ft (68 m) by Cousteau, Philippe Tailliez, and Frédérik Dumas. This safe, easy-to-use, and reliable device was the first modern scuba system

LOUIS BRAILLE

Louis Braille (Jan. 4, 1809-Jan. 6, 1852) improved a coded system of raised dots used by the blind to read. He was blinded as a child, and invented his extraordinary system in his early teens. In 1829, Braille published "The Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged by Them." His method, called Braille, is still in use around the world today. Louis Braille is buried in the Pantheon in Paris, as a French national hero

Modern TransmissionThe invention of the first automatic car is more evolutionary than the result of a single invention. Frenchmen Louis-Rene Panhard and Emile Levassorare recognized for inventing the modern transmission in 1894.

JEAN FOUCAULT

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868) was a French physicist who invented the gyroscope (1852) and the Foucault pendulum (1851). A gyroscope is essentially a spinning wheel set in a movable frame. When the wheel spins, it retains its spatial orientation, and it resists external forces applied to it. Gyroscopes are used in navigation instruments (for ships, planes, and rockets). Foucault was the first person to demonstrate how a pendulum could track the rotation of the Earth (the Foucault pendulum) in 1851. He also showed that light travels more slowly in water than in air (1850) and improved the mirrors of reflecting telescopes

BAROMETER

A barometer is a device that measures air (barometric) pressure. It measures the weight of the column of air that extends from the instrument to the top of the atmosphere. There are two types of barometers commonly used today, mercury and aneroid (meaning "fluidless"). The aneroid barometer (using a spring balance instead of a liquid) was invented by the French scientist lucien vidie in 1843.

ChampagneChampagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France

Pneumatic TireAndré Michelin was the first person to use pneumatic tires on an automobile. He was a French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company

HOT-AIR BALLOON

Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier were two French bothers who made the first successful hot-air balloon. Their first balloon was launched in December, 1782, and ascended to an altitude of 985 ft (300 m).

PASTEURIZATION

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French chemist and inventor. Pasteur studied the process of fermentation, and postulated that fermentation was produced by microscopic organisms (other than yeast), which Pasteur called germs. , Pasteur invented a heating process (now called pasteurization) which sterilizes food, killing micro-organisms that contaminate it.

CALCULATOR

French inventor, Blaise Pascal was one of the most reputed Mathematician and physicist of his time. He is credited with inventing an early Calculator , amazingly advanced for its time, called the Pascaline.

PENCIL

In 1795, the Nicholas Jacques Conte (a French officer in Napoleon's army) patented the modern method of kiln-firing powdered graphite with clay to make pencils of any desired hardness

STETHOSCOPEThe stethoscope was invented by the French physician R.T.H. Laënnec. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec is generally considered to be the father of chest medicine

SEWING MACHINE

The first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor Barthélemy Thimonnier in 1830. Other tailors feared for their livelihood, and burnt his workshop down. ELIAS HOWE was American inventor who patented an improved sewing machine in 1846.

DISEL ENGINE Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913) was born in Paris in 1858. His

parents were Bavarian immigrants. In 1893, he published a paper describing an engine with combustion within a cylinder, the internal combustion engine. In 1894, he filed for a patent for his new invention, dubbed the diesel engine. He operated his first successful engine in 1897.

In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted patent for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.

The diesel engines of today are refined and improved versions of Rudolf Diesel's original concept. They are often used in submarines, ships, locomotives, and large trucks and in electric generating plants

Black & White CameraLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.

Cinema The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas

and Louis Jean , were the earliest filmmakers in history.

Appropriately, "lumière" translates as "light" in English.

french friesIt is claimed that fries originated in Belgium, and the on-going dispute between the French and Belgians about where they were invented is highly contentious, with both countries claiming ownership.