Francois Joseph Des Camus
From LoveToKnow 1911
FRANCOIS JOSEPH DES CAMUS (1672-1732), French mechanician, was born near St Mihiel, on the 14th of September 167 2. After studying for the church, he devoted himself to mechanical inventions, a number of which he described in his Traite des forces niouvantes pour la pratique des arts et metiers, Paris, 1722. He died in England in 1732.
